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37 cups is 8.75 Liters, according to Wolfram Alpha.
A woman died in 2007 after drinking 6.5 liters during a contest held by a radio station.
https://www.reuters.com/article/world/us/radio-contest-death-sparks-sackings-investigation-idUSN17215243
It’s important to note that she was also trying to hold in all of her urine. Refusing to pee when your bladder is in pain is a really bad thing to do!
There's also at least one article (well the only one I found was more recent in 2016 could have sworn I knew one from the 2000s, no amount of water in the one I read) out there of someone dying from drinking too much water while high. I want to say it was like 1-2 gallons in a fairly short amount of time, a few hours or something.
That said I've been high a ton and never got close to that amount of water so stay hydrated just don't down like a gallon in a couple hours, even extremely dehydrated I'm fairly certain our bodies aren't meant to process that amount of water, though too lazy to check amounts.
I remember there being a few cases of mdma 'overdose' in the late 90s/early 2000s that actually ended up being due to water toxicity.
A glass of water isn't necessarily a "cup" in US cooking units.