Can a person be scared to death?

Answer 1

Yo this answer is from me MR. Sticky situations AKA DJ RAW HIGH... For once fiction writers and doctors agree: it's possible to die of fright, or for that matter grief, anger, joy, or just about any other intense emotion. Most victims are older, and likely in precarious health to start with, but a few are young--in some cases really young. One British kid, in what is surely a mother's worst nightmare, was reportedly so freaked out by a visit to the dentist in 1970 that she died of a heart attack at age four. Sudden death due to stress has been reported throughout history. Physician George Engel, in a 1971 review in Annals of Internal Medicine, notes that in the New Testament the apostle Peter tells Ananias, "You have lied not to man but to God," whereupon Ananias and later his wife Sapphira fall down dead. For more recent instances Engel over a six-year period compiled press accounts of 170 deaths due to "disrupting life events." Three-fifths involved men, commonly 45 to 55 years old; the peak age for women was 70 to 75. In 27 percent of cases, the largest category, the precipitating event involved fear. Examples: "A 63-year-old security guard died after being bound by robbers. . . . A woman seeing some teenagers outside her apartment beating and robbing a bus driver died while phoning the police. . . . A 35-year-old man accused of robbery told his lawyer, 'I'm scared to death!'; then collapsed and died."

Answer 2

I guess, if they get so scared that they give themselves a heart attack or stroke from which they die, but that seems kind of far-fetched, so I wouldn't worry about it.