# Guest at Universal Studios Beijing dies from heart attack {2022-04-23} **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 24, 2022, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guest-at-universal-studios-beijing-dies-from-heart-attack-2022-04-23/963340 "2022-04-24T03:26:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2022, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guest-at-universal-studios-beijing-dies-from-heart-attack-2022-04-23/963340/1 "2022-04-24T03:26:53Z")
[Visitor at Universal Studios Beijing suffers heart attac](https://newsfounded.com/belgiumeng/a-guest-of-beijing-universal-studios-died-after-suffering-a-heart-attack-on-the-thrill-ride/): > The park opened last year and attracts many visitors every day. No serious incidents have been reported so far. _“Earlier this week, in the Decepticoaster roller coaster area (…), a visitor had a sudden emergency requiring medical help”_ said the park in a statement Friday night. > > _“We immediately take first aid measures, perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation, use an automated external defibrillator and take (the person) to the hospital”_ but this “ _sad to die “_ he detailed. > > The statement did not specify the gender or age of the visitor. It also does not indicate whether the discomfort occurred before, during or after passing the attraction. There’s really not much more information available. I heard about it when arriving at work this morning (this Sunday is a “substitute workday” to compensate for the upcoming Mayday holiday) when one of the Chinese teachers showed me the article. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2022, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guest-at-universal-studios-beijing-dies-from-heart-attack-2022-04-23/963340/2 "2022-04-24T03:40:07Z")
That’s sad news. And [this site](https://insidethemagic.net/2022/04/guest-passes-away-universal-beijing-ea1/) says that the heart attack occurred actually while on the ride But theme parks worldwide get about 200 million attendees a year, or did before COVID. People must die at one every day. There are warnings everywhere that rollers coasters can be dangerous. When a kid flew off a water slide, I could understand parents panicking. This? What does making this an international incident serve? People who are foolish enough to go on thrill rides if they have heart conditions won’t be deterred and it won’t mean anything to people who are unaware of bad hearts. I’m just venting because the world is weird. ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2022, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guest-at-universal-studios-beijing-dies-from-heart-attack-2022-04-23/963340/3 "2022-04-24T04:10:46Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > What does making this an international incident serve? I don’t see where this has become an international incident, nor anyone trying to make this an international incident. It’s simply a report that someone had a heart attack and died while in a theme park. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2022, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guest-at-universal-studios-beijing-dies-from-heart-attack-2022-04-23/963340/4 "2022-04-24T04:18:28Z")
If you are elderly, like me, it makes you wonder about the advisability of getting on a roller coaster at all. Although, when you think about the number of people that die in bed… ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2022, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guest-at-universal-studios-beijing-dies-from-heart-attack-2022-04-23/963340/5 "2022-04-24T04:58:52Z")
> [@Terminus\_Est](#): > > It’s simply a report that someone had a heart attack and died while in a theme park. But why is that an internationally newsworthy event? People have heart attacks all the time. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2022, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guest-at-universal-studios-beijing-dies-from-heart-attack-2022-04-23/963340/6 "2022-04-24T05:55:26Z")
Well, it’s an American resort that opened in China during the pandemic and this is evidently the first major incident at the resort. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2022, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guest-at-universal-studios-beijing-dies-from-heart-attack-2022-04-23/963340/7 "2022-04-24T06:24:16Z")
How is an old person having a heart attack a major incident? ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2022, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guest-at-universal-studios-beijing-dies-from-heart-attack-2022-04-23/963340/8 "2022-04-24T08:19:39Z")
Here’s a story about a man having a heart attack at Disney World. Is that an international incident? > **[Theme Park Injury Report: Man Had Heart Attack After Riding Toy Story Mania](https://www.mynews13.com/fl/orlando/attractions/2020/04/15/theme-park-injury-report-released-first-quarter-2020?msclkid=92159330c3a511ecad41d715971b7ac6)** > > Florida's theme parks reported several incidents. Here’s a Guatemalan family suing Universal Orlando after a man suffered a fatal heart attack at one of their rides. Is that an international incident? > **[Family Sues Theme Park Over English Only Signs | Law & Crime](https://lawandcrime.com/lawsuit/family-sues-universal-theme-park-after-fatal-heart-attack-because-warning-signs-are-only-in-english/?msclkid=92147730c3a511ec9ae8169958cff8b8)** > > A lawsuit filed by a Guatemalan family against a theme park in Florida argues that warning signs must disclose potential dangers in languages other than English Here’s an 89-year old woman that passed out after riding Space Mountain. Why is this in the news? > **[Theme Park Injury Report: Woman Passes Out After Riding Space Mountain](https://www.mynews13.com/fl/orlando/attractions/2020/01/16/theme-park-injury-report-)** > > Florida's theme parks reported 9 incidents in the quarter A 70 year old man died of a heart attack in the wave pool at Disney World. (Yawn) [https://www.talkdisney.com/wdw/man-in-disney-world-wave-pool-has-heart-attack-dies/?msclkid=cc3c2980c3a611ec92c581db40b71933](https://www.talkdisney.com/wdw/man-in-disney-world-wave-pool-has-heart-attack-dies/?msclkid=cc3c2980c3a611ec92c581db40b71933) ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2022, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guest-at-universal-studios-beijing-dies-from-heart-attack-2022-04-23/963340/9 "2022-04-24T09:15:58Z")
Given the sheer numbers of people who visit theme parks, even if all of them were sitting quietly listening to soothing music there would still be the concessional death/hearth attack/medical emergency simply down to in any large group people will die due to various causes over any given time span. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2022, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guest-at-universal-studios-beijing-dies-from-heart-attack-2022-04-23/963340/10 "2022-04-24T09:21:08Z")
I never said “international incident”. Currently Beijing is still operating under its “zero tolerance COVID restrictions”, so it’s a bit of surprise to me that the amusement park is even open. The school where I work had already made arrangements for the high school students to go to Universal a couple of weeks ago, but that outing was canceled “due to the COVID situation”. Next, the resort opened up last year and, again, this is the first serious thing that’s happened there. It’s a new park. And, yes, it is kind of mundane for an amusement park to have somethign serious happen, but one that’s fairly new? That is news. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2022, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guest-at-universal-studios-beijing-dies-from-heart-attack-2022-04-23/963340/11 "2022-04-24T11:41:08Z")
I had a scary “cardiac event” while on the Cyclone at Coney Island. I was in my 40s with no prior cardiac history. Though I felt like I was dying, nobody else cared. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2022, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guest-at-universal-studios-beijing-dies-from-heart-attack-2022-04-23/963340/12 "2022-04-24T13:52:18Z")
I’ve watched many videos of the slingshot or vomitron ride that flings two people high in the sky where they spin until the ride settles down and it slowly descends to the ground. Many of them pass out and get whiplashed all over the place but all remain alive. All ages too seen some tiny kids and very senior couples go on it it’s the first timers that scream bloody murder and pass out. They lose their wigs, their chains, their dignity and I’d place a bet that one or two get a ride to the hospital. But they wouldn’t show that video. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2022, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guest-at-universal-studios-beijing-dies-from-heart-attack-2022-04-23/963340/13 "2022-04-24T14:12:41Z")
Yea, It doesn’t seem all that newsworthy to me. If someone told me the annual heart attack death rate on amusement park rides worldwide was about 3-5 I wouldn’t argue that. I was more surprised no one started a thread on the [Teen dies after fall from drop tower ride at Orlando's ICON PARK, authorities say](https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/orlando-drop-tower-ride-death) Orlando drop tower ride death that happened last month. I had the unfortunate luck to see the uncut video on youtube the morning after before they quickly removed it. Absolutely horrible and completely avoidable. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2022, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guest-at-universal-studios-beijing-dies-from-heart-attack-2022-04-23/963340/14 "2022-04-24T14:16:44Z")
I’ve been on three cruises. On two there were heart attacks requiring helicopter pick up. No idea if they died. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2022, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guest-at-universal-studios-beijing-dies-from-heart-attack-2022-04-23/963340/15 "2022-04-24T14:18:50Z")
Next thing you know, someone will die of natural causes on a cruise ship. 😱 ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2022, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guest-at-universal-studios-beijing-dies-from-heart-attack-2022-04-23/963340/16 "2022-04-24T16:49:35Z")
Never happen. They throw the body overboard and claim they died in the ocean as a suicide. The body count on cruise ships make for a prima facie case than boarding one is an admission of intending to commit suicide, so no legal problems crop up. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2022, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guest-at-universal-studios-beijing-dies-from-heart-attack-2022-04-23/963340/17 "2022-04-24T17:43:22Z")
> [@Hampshire](#): > > I was more surprised no one started a thread on the [Teen dies after fall from drop tower ride at Orlando’s ICON PARK, authorities say](https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/orlando-drop-tower-ride-death) Orlando drop tower ride death that happened last month. I had the unfortunate luck to see the uncut video on youtube the morning after before they quickly removed it. Absolutely horrible and completely avoidable. I followed a bit of a rabbit hole on this, because I missed it last month when it happened. The sad thing is that _23 years ago_ almost the exact same thing happened to another kid, and no additional safety gear was installed then. That poor kid. The story said he didn’t die until he was at the hospital. I hope he was unconscious.