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Is there a disease that kills by preventing sleep?

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The Three Stages of Insomnia

By the third stage of fatal familial insomnia, you're not even going to one or two. You're just not sleeping at all. And it's been like this for nine, ten months already. So things are starting to get pretty bad at this point.

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