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Akiko Belich, 77, died in a steam room at a 24 Hour Fitness in Littleton, Colorado, in March. It's a sad end for the widow and grandmother of three who had moved to the United States from Japan in her 30s and lived her life as a seamstress, according to her obituary.
Just as sad is that no one discovered that Belich had passed out in the steam room, which she entered at some point after 1 p.m. on the afternoon of March 29, until two members discovered her body at 7:45 a.m. the next day. A coroner ruled her death an accident, saying she died of acute renal failure due to dehydration.
Whether it was Belich's routine to work out and then sit in the sauna, I don't know. But it is the routine of that 24 Hour Fitness...