September 4, 2008: "Sudden death after arrest may be new syndrome"

Sudden death after arrest may be new syndrome

An investigator in a hospital in Madrid, Spain has revealed that many young men have begun to die at their point of arrest or within 24 hours. He proposes that this is because of elevated stress levels. As the young men become arrested, their adrenaline and other levels begin to raise which ultimately leads to a heart attack, killing them. The study included 60 cases where death had occurred during or after arrest. 59 of these were men with the average age of 33.
This so far is only a guess, a hypothesis. There is nothing that can be done about this for now. After all being arrested is a stressful, scary situation. These men are believed to have suffered from the same thing wild animals do as they are captured. They become so frightened and stressed that they seem to die of fright. This too is the case with the 60 people. Right now, there are too many unanswered questions to do anything about this.

Keep your cool, it may save you.

Thank you Ben Hirschler and Yahoo News.