] "We have always been curious about why cardiovascular ] deaths can occur in the early hours of the morning, when ] people are peacefully sleeping," Somers said. The study, ] published in the March 24 issue of the New England ] Journal of Medicine , suggests that for people with sleep ] apnea, sleep can be far from a time of quiet rest. So I meet with a sleep disorder doctor about this on Friday. But, like my motive for being an Organ Donor (the rumor of 'do no resucitate"), maybe this isn't such an awful future to be looming over me. Don't most people, if they care to die, care to die in their sleep? |