Gangnam style is now a cause of death. A UK man died after performing the popular dance at a Christmas party.
Eamonn Kilbride, 46, suffered from a heart attack and died after performing Psy's Gangnam Style horse dance at an office Christmas party. Kilbride was a father of three who worked as an IT manager for the Thwaites brewery in Lancashire, according to The Sun.
Kilbride's wife Julie was also at the party when he began to have a heart attack. It was her birthday and she spent the night trying to revive her husband with CPR.
Within five minutes, paramedics showed up and took over, but he was pronounced dead on arrival at Royal Blackburn Hospital on Saturday night. He suffered from acute heart failure.
Mrs. Kilbride, who was married to her husband for 23 years, mourned the loss and spoke well about his character.
"I want people to know how he would help anybody whether it was a life-long friend, or someone he had just met.He was a great family man and he worked so hard," she said, according to The Sun.
"Eamonn was always the life of the party and loved dancing. We were having a fantastic time at the Christmas party and Eamonn had just finished dancing to Gangnam Style. He was up on stage and entertaining everybody. He said he had a bit of a pain and just collapsed. I tried to revive him until the ambulance got there, but by the time he got to the hospital he was gone," Mrs. Kilbride recalled.
"He loved me dearly and would tell people all the time. I know he thought the world of us," she told The Sun.
While Gangnam Style might not kill everyone, Prof Bernard Keavney, consultant cardiologist at Newcastle University, told The Telegraph that men shouldn't "stray outside your comfort zone".
"The chance that you'll come to grief is very small. But as with any form of untypical exercise that you're not used to taking, be somewhat measured. Let the lady dance around you," he continued.
"I certainly wouldn't say that people need to avoid Gangnam Style over the holidays. [But] if you're unused to taking vigorous physical exercise, you shouldn't throw yourself into violent exertion without due preparation."
Police are investigating the death but there is nothing suspicious about the incident. A post morterm exam was carried out this week and his funeral will be helf on December 19.
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