I'd have to say a blood clot as the cause of death would be unlikely as embolic causes of death would almost certainly have been ruled out as the coronary, pulmonary and cerebral vessels are routinely examined at autopsy. Furthermore, for him to get an embolus in his brain secondary to a deep vein thrombosis he would need to have a hole in his heart.

SADS is what they call sudden death in the presence of structurally normal heart. The death is assumed to be due to a previously undiagnosed arrhythmia (irregular heart beat), which is not as uncommon as you might think. In my 200 student cohort at Uni we had two students diagnosed in a lab class one day, with potentially lethal arrhythmias, one requiring a pacemaker.

@hsrob, WTF man. Thats amazing to know that one in 100 of us are going to die playing Wii Fit

Not sure that we can blame it all on Wii Fit;)

p.s. that 2/200 is not a real stat just personal experience.

DON'T BREAK THE THREAD!!!    

Oh my god this shit is so sad!

But I cant stop laughing LOL Omg Im going to Hell.

I BLAME WIIFIT

New definition of hardcore to be used on VGchartz. Games that have had people ACTUALLY die playing them. I think i remember some guy in China died playing WOW, don't quote me on that though. Any others?

That's it! He was the drummer for Spinal Tap!

Yeah that's crazy, I started when I was like 20.

I thought it was something from the Onion -- at first.

Then I goggled SADS -- It is real: http://www.c-r-y.org.uk/SADS.htm

In a medical context the term SADS is most often used in reference to Sudden Arrhythmia Death Syndrome. However in recent times the phrase Sudden Adult Death Syndrome or SADS has been adopted by the media for referring to the more general notion of a sudden death of an apparently fit and healthy young person. To avoid confusion it is important to understand all definitions of SADS when discussing different conditions or syndromes.

Basically, the poor man probably collapsed from an undiagnosed condition that was exacerbated by the combination of events -- plane trip, alcohol, exertion.

Of course, the same thing could have happened if he had just been jogging. But we would not be talking about it here.

Mike from Morgantown

If you die in Wii Fit...

you die in real life!