22-10-2009, 04:01 PM
This probably couldn't happen in Scandinavia, the Baltics or Russia because people have a lot of experience in saunas and know their limits usually. Plus it's a fairly democratic thing, everyone's equal naked or in towels in the heat.
My understanding is the Native American sweat lodge tradition is likewise very non-authoritarian. There is no leader. I know the traditional vision quest is very personal, undertaken alone at one's own spiritual urging, for one's own benefit.
Of course you get the same sort of fatalities around the world in concert situations, people asphyxiated by the crowd, unventilated venue or both in combination with physiological effects from drugs.
My understanding is the Native American sweat lodge tradition is likewise very non-authoritarian. There is no leader. I know the traditional vision quest is very personal, undertaken alone at one's own spiritual urging, for one's own benefit.
Of course you get the same sort of fatalities around the world in concert situations, people asphyxiated by the crowd, unventilated venue or both in combination with physiological effects from drugs.