May you be the first Pulitzer-winning user of double negatives.

Insanity and death from lack of REM sleep was an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation.

First, do no harm.

Are we suing Michael Stipe for Michael Jackson's death, now? Is that what this is leading up to?

Someone's gotta pay!

"...to die, to sleep no more, and by a sleep, to say we end the Heart-ache,..." Hamlet-
William Shakespeare

You'd say I'm putting you on

But it's no joke, it's doing me harm

You know I can't sleep, I can't stop my brain

You know it's three weeks, I'm going insane

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXHOaj22H…

There needs to be some sort of official board overseeing the "legitimate" prescription drug use of celebrities. They're ALL pilled up to the eyebrows, and any celebrity who hasn't found a doctor willing and eager to inject them with a suitcase-full of God-knows-what just isn't looking very hard.

@6: You're such a stupid git.

I feel this is an appropriate time to bring up my personal favorite inherited disorder, familial fatal insomnia!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatal_famil…

Basically, you stop being able to sleep and then you die. It runs in families. It has no cure.

According to case studies, in FFI victims there's a phase of at least 3 months (but maybe as many as 9) with a total inability to sleep, which leads me to believe that MJ's lack of REM sleep breaks no records.