A proverb said: "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" and according also to Sigmund Freud a man's mission in life is "to work and to love." Both are correct in its sense. In this modern world, in excess either of work or at play is absolutely hazardous to our health and today there are questions left unanswered especially on this query: Can a man literally work himself to death? There are numerous researches conducted over the past years by several scientists all over the world on what are the possibilities and factors concerning this dilemma. The Japanese think that there is really “death from overwork”. The subjects of their study included men who had been hospitalized with a heart attack as well as healthy men of similar ages and occupations. The results were striking: men from both groups who put in more than 11 hours of work on an average day were 2.4 times more likely to have a heart attack than were men who worked "just" seven to nine hours a day. What actually triggers the heart attack is simply mental stress from work although, there are also additional possible factors like high blood pressure, high cholesterol levels, smoking, diabetes and obesity were linked to heart attack, but even after taking these variables into account, the number of hours worked itself was still closely related to the risk of heart attack. There are also group of researchers from Sweden who observed more than 12,500 employed men over a 14-year period. The scientists evaluated the psychological and physical demands of each man's job; they also collected information about the age, smoking history, exercise habits, educational level and social class of each individual. When the results were analyzed, two occupational factors emerged as risk factors for death from cardiovascular disease. Men who had low control over the demands of their jobs were 1.8 times more likely to die from heart disease than men with more control were; men who also experienced a low level of social support from co-workers were 2.6 times more vulnerable to cardiovascular death. In my own thinking and also based on my observation to some different local offices here in my place, Yes, I believe that stress from work can be a big culprit for cardiovascular death. And there is a fact that we all know from the beginning that mental stress increases blood levels of adrenaline and cortisone, two so-called stress hormones. Psychological stress raises the blood pressure and heart rate; it can also induce abnormalities in the heart's pumping rhythm, known as arrhythmias. Stress can also activate platelets in the blood, triggering clots that can block diseased coronary arteries. Therefore, it’s really a big factor for a sudden death from over work. There is also a factor accountable for cardiovascular death. According to a recent study anger is an important component of stress on the job and men with the most anger and hostility have the highest risk of heart disease. In a seven-year study of more than 2,000 men, a group of scientists found that men who showed high levels of anger on standard tests of anger expression were two times more likely to have strokes than were their calm peers. Until now there are still on-going tests and researches from all over the world just to verify these observations and with the query if stress at work kills? Well, we can answer it with our own point of view because we know certain factors to the dilemma. Actually, it’s easy to combat the problem…Live healthy and eat healthy and remember the saying: "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy".(THIS IS FROM A WRITE UP BY Harvey B. Simon )