OKLAHOMA CITY,— You’ve heard the three words more often than you can count. You may even have uttered them yourself, especially around this spooky time of year.
The phrase: “scared to death.”
So, is this mere hyperbole? Or can a person – literally – die of fright?
“Absolutely, fear can kill you,” says Hal Scofield, M.D., a physician-scientist at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation. “That said, d…