# Has anybody ever died from a period?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 12, 2003, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anybody-ever-died-from-a-period/160974 "2003-03-12T23:55:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anybody-ever-died-from-a-period/160974/21 "2003-03-14T04:59:28Z")

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There have only been two or three recorded cases of women with hemophilia. Their parents were first cousins, or something. (it would only work if the father were a hemophiliac and the mother a hemophiliac carrier-all the daughters of a hemophiliac will be carriers, but the sons will be free, as it’s carried on the x gene).

They died when they started to menstruate.

Hemophilia affects males.

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**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anybody-ever-died-from-a-period/160974/22 "2003-03-14T05:05:15Z")

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That’s my new learnin’ for the day!

And yet another reason why I love this place.

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**Author:** ![sjc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e5b9ba/32.png) [@sjc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sjc)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anybody-ever-died-from-a-period/160974/23 "2003-03-14T05:20:12Z")

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Someone I know has had nearly continuous bleeding for over a year now. I don’t know the exact specifics, but she’s been on her period more than she’s been off. She quit taking the Pill, but whether that has anything to do with it I don’t know. The doctors were no help to her.

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**Author:** ![CrazyCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CrazyCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrazyCatLady)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anybody-ever-died-from-a-period/160974/24 "2003-03-14T07:05:06Z")

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I think your periods are far more likely to make you _wish_ you were dead than to kill you. Just another reason I wanna get spayed.

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