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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mlov43, post: 24659726, member: 16729&quot;]Yeah, the Fan Death thing should be pretty debunked by now.&nbsp; That was one interesting urban legend.&nbsp; The claim in the media was that the blades of spinning fans &quot;chopped up the air molecules&quot; (or sucks the air away from your nose and mouth) and people became robbed of oxygen and that&#039;s what caused the cases of people who had gone to sleep and were found dead in the morning. Especially if you keep the windows and doors to the room closed, Fan Death will &quot;get you,&quot; it was believed.</p><p><br /></p><p>Completely forgotten or overlooked (or hidden) by the family members was likely the fact that the person who died was blitzed out of their mind, an alcoholic and was on death&#039;s door, or was someone who accidentally drank alcohol in combination with prescription drugs and that killed them.&nbsp; A fan just happened to be running in the room when the person was found, and so the suspect was quickly identified(!).&nbsp; Fan Death was an idea mimetically promoted by the Korean media, big time.&nbsp; I bought a fan back in the 1990s in Korea and it had this sticker on it:</p><p>[ATTACH]1571794[/ATTACH]&quot;Caution&quot; it reads.</p><p><br /></p><p>I mean A LOT of Korean people who were smart enough to know better didn&#039;t feel comfortable enough to call B.S. on the existence of Fan Death, not even doctors, who knew it was B.S.&nbsp; That&#039;s how bad it was.&nbsp; I think it was one brave doctor that went on TV one year and spoke out against the Fan Death beliefs and that seemed to have started the slow crumbling of the myth.&nbsp; It&#039;s been a pretty durable urban legend, though, and it lasted way too long among the public! </p><p><br /></p><p>If Fan Death is real, I should be dead for sure.&nbsp; I slept with a fan on (for white noise, mostly) blowing on me every night in a buttoned-up basement room from the time I was 10 to the age of 20 or so.&nbsp; Even in winter.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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