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How long can the body survive with out sleep?

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It has even been said that one could survive three times as long without sleep indeed, one of the better known experiments on this subject, found that depriving rats entirely of sleep resulted in their death, or near dying state within 11-32 days
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11 days . This is including proper diet and water.
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