Sleep Is an Extreme Sport

It is worth noting that sleep is an extreme sport, because sleep has been proven to be directly linked to death¹.

According to surveys, nearly everyone who has died had, within the 449 hours before their death, slept at least once (aside from death itself)². And among all people who sleep normally, not a single one, as of today, has lived past the age of 123³. By contrast, people who do not sleep – or, to be more rigorous, people who have stayed awake for more than 480 consecutive hours – not one of them has failed to reach their 123rd birthday².

This effectively proves that sleep is an activity that is extremely harmful to the body and carries extremely high risk – everyone who has died in the past had slept at some point, and scientists infer that everyone who has ever slept will also die, with a mortality rate approaching 100%.

According to the Encyclopædia Britannica, extreme sports are high-risk pursuits and activities⁴; therefore, sleep is an extreme sport.

Footnotes

1. “Fake News.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 16 Aug. 2023, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fake_news. ↩

2. McWhirter, Norris; McWhirter, Alan Ross (1978). Guinness book of world records, 1978. New York: Bantam Books. p. 52. ISBN 9780553112559. ↩ ↩²

3. “Jeanne Calment “rehabilitated” as world’s oldest person ever“. Gerontology Research Group. 2019. Retrieved 6 May 2022. ↩

4. “Extreme Sports.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, inc., 27 July 2023, www.britannica.com/sports/extreme-sports. ↩