How do people pass away “peacefully in their sleep?”

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Do they just kind of stop working or something? It seems like if someone wasn’t doing well their pass away from a heart attack or something whole they were sleeping, but then again that wouldn’t be peaceful. Maybe I’m just getting too caught up on the words.

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Passing away peacefully isn’t the actual cause of death, there could be many different ones. Essentially your conscious mind doesn’t realize you’re dying. Think about the last time you slept while you had a bad cold or the flu, you didn’t realize how bad you felt while you were actually sleeping right? Now think of it in terms of your heart failing. If you’re heart was already that weak your body acclimated to that feeling and it wasn’t enough to jolt you to consciousness, so you pass away peacefully unaware.

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