Vietnam: Dad Drops His Daughters at School, Then Collapses Dead in the Yard [NSFL]

A man in Vietnam walks his two daughters to school, heads home, and drops dead in his own yard before he even gets through the door.

Stroke, apparently. Fast and completely silent.

Video

The footage comes from a fixed home security camera looking down into a narrow yard: corrugated metal sheets leaned against the wall, a tarp thrown over what’s probably a bike, a small pile of sand off to one side. The man is already on the ground when the clip starts, face down, not moving. A motorbike with two riders comes through a few seconds later and slows near him, though it’s hard to say from the angle whether they’re actually checking on him or just easing past on their way through the alley, since they carry on toward the back a moment later.

The camera keeps catching the same yard in short bursts over the next half minute or so, and every time he’s visible, he’s still face down in that same spot. Nobody in frame seems to clock that anything’s wrong.

What the Thread Said

Most people skipped right past the sad part and jumped straight to asking what beats stroke for the top spot (cancer, apparently, case closed). One reader swapped in a story about a coworker who shrugged off head pain he described as feeling like getting hit with a pro wrestler’s elbow, right before getting rushed to the hospital just in time. A couple of others just guessed blood pressure was the culprit.

Vietnam’s Stroke Death Rate Is 1.5x Thailand’s

The guy in this clip goes down from a stroke, and in Vietnam that’s a far more common way to die than you’d think.

• 210 stroke deaths per 100,000 people in Vietnam each year, versus 140 in Thailand.
• About 200,000 new strokes a year in Vietnam, with roughly 167,000 ending in death.
• Ischemic stroke deaths in Vietnam run 3 times Thailand’s rate.
• Over 70% of strokes are linked to high blood pressure.
• Over 70% of women and over 80% of men with hypertension aren’t keeping it under control.

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