What would happen if you forced someone to stay awake?

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Like, if we disregarded all ethics and moral and just forced a person to stay awake for a month or so, with loud music, shaking them, waterboarding etc. What would happen?

Would they just fall asleep inspire of our best efforts to prevent that?

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We’ve done it with mice, and they die eventually. It’s very hard to keep them from falling asleep. I don’t think there’s ever been a confirmed human death from lack of sleep, but it’s theoretically possible

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