Editing Death from laughter (section)

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[[File:Chrysippus of Soli.jpg|thumb|upright|right|[[Chrysippus]] allegedly died of laughter after witnessing a donkey eating his figs.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Inwood |first=Brad |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nYWpgGunBBAC |title=The Stoics Reader: Selected Writings and Testimonia |last2=Gerson |first2=Lloyd P. |date=2008-09-11 |publisher=Hackett Publishing |isbn=978-1-60384-376-8 |language=en}}</ref>]]
[[File:La muerte de Pietro Aretino, por Anselm Feuerbach.jpg|thumb|right|220px|''Der Tod des Dichters Pietro Aretino'' (''The Death of the Poet [[Pietro Aretino]]'') by [[Anselm Feuerbach]]]]

'''Death from laughter''' is a rare form of [[death]], usually resulting from either [[cardiac arrest]] or [[asphyxia]]tion, that has itself been caused by a fit of [[laughter]]. Though uncommon, death by laughter has been recorded from the times of [[ancient Greece]] to modern times.

Usually, the phrase "dying from laughter" is used as a [[hyperbole]].