Sudden Death

Sudden Death or Sudden death may refer to:

  • Sudden cardiac death, natural death from cardiac causes, heralded by abrupt loss of consciousness within one hour of the onset of acute symptoms

In sports:

  • Sudden death (sport), a form of competition where play ends as soon as one competitor is ahead of the others, with that competitor becoming the winner
  • 1958 NFL Championship Game, nicknamed "Sudden Death" for its dramatic ending

In entertainment:

  • Sudden Death (film), a 1995 American action film starring Jean-Claude Van Damme
  • "Sudden Death" (song), a 2010 song by Megadeth
  • Sudden Death (music), a comedy rap group
  • Sudden Death Records, a record label
  • "Sudden Death," a season 1 episode of the television series Murder, She Wrote
  • "Sudden Death," a song by Bathory on their 2001 album Destroyer of Worlds

Other:

  • Blair's Sudden Death Sauce, a very hot sauce for food


Famous quotes containing the words sudden and/or death:

    “Coming about its own business
    Till, with a sudden sharp hot stink of fox
    It enters the dark hole of the head.
    The window is starless still; the clock ticks,
    The page is printed.”
    —Ted Hughes (b. 1930)

    “Now they heap the funeral pyre,
    And the torch of death they light;
    Ah! ‘tis hard to die by fire!”
    —William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863)