Hi,
My father passed away from a ruptured artery four months ago. He was 69 years old and healthy as a horse. He was excercising with his friends one morning as any other (his routine was about a 10k walk, followed by swimming and weightlifting). He said he felt as though his back and face were being pricked repeatedly. They told him to sit down, and he collapsed within a matter of minutes. He was quite literally passing in front of the hospital, right in front of the emergency entrance. You can imagine that the ambulance arrived quite quickly, although the doctor I talked to said that he had probably passed in the ambulance. No doctors I have talked to have been able to give me a definite answer as for why his artery ruptured. He was not under stress, and heart problems haven't been...complicated. Apparently, it was somthing that he kept from my mother and I...something that many people live weith for years, and his heart specialist had said was currently not a problem...please, I wasn't even in the country when this happened. I want to fin out what happened.