[globular-toast]

You will wake up if you need to breathe. Otherwise people with sleep apnea would die. They don't. They just don't sleep properly.

[caymanjim]

People with severe apnea die from it all the time. You'll wake up if you need to breathe...until you die of a heart attack or stroke from all the damage.

[kick_in_the_dor]

Pretty clear he meant death from suffocation.

[caymanjim]

Suffocation is what causes the heart attacks and strokes. It's what killed Carrie Fisher. Granted, she had chronic underlying health problems and was apparently on a bunch of drugs, but the proximate cause was apnea.

[schwartzworld]

Most people with sleep apnea take a big breath through their mouths a moment after they stop breathing. Taping without CPAP is absolutely risky.

[brigandish]

Either I die or it's impossible to sleep. These options don't grab me.