Not to suggest that the phenomena are necessarily related (though it wouldn't surprise me), there's also this: >Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP) is

Not to suggest that the phenomena are necessarily related (though it wouldn't surprise me), there's also this: >Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP) is a fatal complication of epilepsy. It is defined as the sudden and unexpected, non-traumatic and non-drowning death of a person with epilepsy, without a toxicological or anatomical cause of death detected during the post-mortem examination. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SUDEP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SUDEP .