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In South Korea most fans have timers so they’re not left on overnight, because people think it’ll kill you if you do leave it on.
This belief wasn’t helped by medical examiners putting “death by fan” on the death certificates of suicide victims to help the dead save face and spare the families the embarrassment of a “cowardly death” for a few decades.

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What is death by fan supposed to mean? Like how would you die from a fan?

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130 points

Ask John Lennon.

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Lol, Jesus Christ

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!LeMMySilvur

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Oh shit… This was funny. Thank you.

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Many people believe that death by fan sucks but really, it blows.

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I think they believe it will blow all the air out of the room

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15 points

Chop up all the oxygen and make it unusable?

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Fan Death.

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I used to work in a real sweatbox of a factory so we had huge fans running all day. It was deceptive because you’d normally be drenched in sweat but the fans prevented it. So you’d drink a gallon of water and take maybe one brown ass dehydrated piss. I could see something like that being blamed on a fan. Just heat exhaustion or dehydration

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So do they think that CPAP machines are just suicide devices?

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