{"id":83134,"date":"2018-09-28T11:42:20","date_gmt":"2018-09-28T18:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/people-who-give-up-on-life-can-die-from-psychogenic-death-say-scientists"},"modified":"2018-09-28T11:42:20","modified_gmt":"2018-09-28T18:42:20","slug":"people-who-give-up-on-life-can-die-from-psychogenic-death-say-scientists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/people-who-give-up-on-life-can-die-from-psychogenic-death-say-scientists","title":{"rendered":"People Who Give Up on Life Can Die From \u201cPsychogenic Death,\u201d Say Scientists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/people-who-give-up-on-life-can-die-from-psychogenic-death-say-scientists.jpeg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a paper published in Medical Hypotheses a scientist at the University of Portsmouth in England has identified a syndrome called give-up-itis. Also called psychogenic death, he believes that this syndrome plagued prisoners of war in Korea for years.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/49381-give-up-itis-korean-war-syndrome\">https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/49381-give-up-itis-korean-war-syndrome<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a paper published in Medical Hypotheses a scientist at the University of Portsmouth in England has identified a syndrome called give-up-itis. Also called psychogenic death, he believes that this syndrome plagued prisoners of war in Korea for years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}