Man dies from playing non stop computer games

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Man dies after 50 hours of computer games

South Korean left seat in Internet cafe only to use toilet, take brief naps

Updated: 6:43 p.m. ET Aug. 9, 2005

SEOUL, South Korea - A South Korean man who played computer games for 50 hours almost non-stop died of heart failure minutes after finishing his mammoth session in an Internet cafe, authorities said on Tuesday. The 28-year-old man, identified only by his family name Lee, had been playing online battle simulation games at the cybercafe in the southeastern city of Taegu, police said. Lee had planted himself in front of a computer monitor to play online games on Aug. 3. He only left the spot over the next three days to go to the toilet and take brief naps on a makeshift bed, they said. We presume the cause of death was heart failure stemming from exhaustion," a Taegu provincial police official said by telephone. Lee had recently quit his job to spend more time playing games, the daily JoongAng Ilbo reported after interviewing former work colleagues and staff at the Internet cafe. After he failed to return home, Lee's mother asked his former colleagues to find him. When they reached the cafe, Lee said he would finish the game and then go home, the paper reported. He died a few minutes later, it said. South Korea, one of the most wired countries in the world, has a large and highly developed game industry. Copyright 2005 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of Reuters content is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters.

zethcarn

Isn't this old news?  Or is this a different Korean?

Either way I could care less that some moron doesn't have the discipline to control himself with games.

Horsas

*SALUTE*

This man is a hero to us all.

zensaber

nows thats the way to die :-), have you ever noticed thou that almost everything we hear like this about people dieing from gaming is in korea?

Dinion

The older thread for this is right on this same page atm, there is also one in news discussion and a couple in off-topic right?

amappala

Man dies from working too hard to pay for his dream vacation....

I kinda like the dying from enjoyment, than from working too hard and not seeing the fruit of all your hard work.

Maybe he had a prominition that he is going to die from heart attack very soon.
Or, maybe the doctor said he had a good chance of dying from heart failure soon.
So he quit his job and did what he love most.