A case of sudden death of an epileptic during sleep

Often, epileptics die at the time of a pronounced seizure attack, especially in status epilepticus; otherwise they die either at the time of the attack, or immediately after it in an unconscious state, from completely random circumstances, which are sometimes completely impossible to prevent even with careful observation of the patient and which are fatal for the given subject. All cases of this kind are very instructive, indicating once again what kind of careful supervision epileptics require, even in the setting of special institutions, where they seem to be in the greatest safety from death due to lack of preventive measures or oversight on the part of the caring staff.