If you die in your sleep, why is it that the heart for example just decides: Okay let’s just start not working.
Edit: I don’t mean heart attacks or strokes but more like “died in sleep, didn’t wake up next morning”
In: Biology
Once one organ system starts to fail, without powerful medical intervention it starts to drag the rest down with it. When someone actually passes away “in their sleep” it usually means either the lungs failed or the heart did (oftentimes they both kind of fail at the same time in people who are old and ready to die). The part of your brain that controls those two organs is so low in the brain stem that barring a massive stroke, those usually fail on their own for any of a long list of reasons before the brain itself shuts them down
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