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If someone has the willpower and realy wants to do it, you can resist sleep urges indefinantly.
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Average Humans can go for about 4-6 days before the body begins to suffer from lack of sleep, after about 7-10 days, the body will be unable to function and long term damage can insue. Any longer and if you haven't fallen asleep by then, your body would shut down to the point of near-death. You won't die from lack of sleep, but the effects that come from not sleeping can be Devastating.
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According to a 2000 study published in the British scientific journal, researchers in Australia and New Zealand reported that sleep deprivation can have some of the same hazardous effects as being drunk.[15] People who drove after being awake for 17–19 hours performed worse than those with a blood alcohol level of .05 percent, which is the legal limit for drunk driving in most western European countries (the U.S. and UK set their blood alcohol limits at .08 percent). In addition, as a result of continuous muscular activity without proper rest time, effects such as cramping are much more frequent in sleep-deprived individuals. Extreme cases of sleep deprivation have been reported to be associated with hernias, muscle fascia tears, and other such problems commonly associated with physical overexertion. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_deprivation
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