No. Eating the Carolina Reaper, the hottest pepper in the world is not going to kill you. However, you can get too much capsaicin which is the chemical (or oil) in chili peppers that make them hot. But to get too much, you’d have to eat over three ounces of Carolina Reapers. There have been a few instances of someone ending up in the hospital after eating these hot peppers, but usually, they have an underlying medical condition. One rumor was that a man burned a hole in his esophagus from hot peppers. This turned out to be untrue. What really happened was a hole formed after he started vomiting after eating a burger that had Ghost pepper puree on it. There are times the superhot peppers can cause hiccups, stomach pain, nausea, and vomiting. But they cannot burn through your inside body parts.