Vana Roth

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BEWARE - You can work yourself to death!

An Associated Press article date July 9, 2008, confirmed my suspicions about ones ability to literally work oneself to death.

According to the Japanese Labor Bureau, a forty-five year old man died from ischemic heart disease after averaging more than 80 hours of overtime per month, in the two months prior to his death.

Apparently this phenomenon called "karoshi" has been acknowledged by the Japanese Health Ministry and has been steadily on the rise since first recognized in 1987.

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