Sudden Death or Sudden death may refer to:
- Sudden cardiac death, natural death from cardiac causes, heralded by abrupt loss of consciousness within one hour of the onset of acute symptoms
In sports:
- Sudden death (sport), a form of competition where play ends as soon as one competitor is ahead of the others, with that competitor becoming the winner
- 1958 NFL Championship Game, nicknamed "Sudden Death" for its dramatic ending
In entertainment:
- Sudden Death (film), a 1995 American action film starring Jean-Claude Van Damme
- "Sudden Death" (song), a 2010 song by Megadeth
- Sudden Death (music), a comedy rap group
- Sudden Death Records, a record label
- "Sudden Death," a season 1 episode of the television series Murder, She Wrote
- "Sudden Death," a song by Bathory on their 2001 album Destroyer of Worlds
Other:
- Blair's Sudden Death Sauce, a very hot sauce for food
Famous quotes containing the words sudden death, sudden and/or death:
“The man who would change the name of Arkansas is the original, iron-jawed, brass-mouthed, copper-bellied corpse-maker from the wilds of the Ozarks! He is the man they call Sudden Death and General Desolation! Sired by a hurricane, dam’d by an earthquake, half-brother to the cholera, nearly related to the smallpox on his mother’s side!”
—Administration in the State of Arka, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“Much more frequent in Hollywood than the emergence of Cinderella is her sudden vanishing. At our party, even in those glowing days, the clock was always striking twelve for someone at the height of greatness; and there was never a prince to fetch her back to the happy scene.”
—Ben Hecht (1893–1964)
“Some say that gleams of a remoter world
Visit the soul in sleep,—that death is slumber,
And that its shapes the busy thoughts outnumber
Of those who wake and live.—”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)