Not only can chlorides cause failures in electronic assemblies, THEY CAN KILL YOU. At least according to this Reuters news story.... (read just the second to last sentence)
Tim Reeves
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Kevorkian Murder Conviction Upheld by Supreme Court
Mon Oct 7,10:35 AM ET
By James Vicini
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Assisted suicide doctor Jack Kevorkian ( news - web sites) lost on Monday a U.S. Supreme Court ( news - web sites) appeal seeking to overturn his conviction for the videotaped murder of a terminally ill Michigan man.
Without comment, the justices rejected Kevorkian's appeal arguing the guilty verdict must be set aside because the right to be free from "unbearable and irremediable pain and suffering is deeply rooted" in U.S. history and the Constitution.
Kevorkian, 74, a retired pathologist, is serving a prison sentence of between 10 and 25 years for second-degree murder in the 1998 death of Thomas Youk.
Youk, a 52-year-old, Detroit-area man, suffered from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig's disease ( news - web sites), a severe and progressive disorder of the nervous system for which there is no cure. He was in a wheelchair, fed through a tube and forced to use a machine to help him breathe.
Youk, a former racecar driver, was shown on CBS' "60 Minutes" receiving a lethal dose of potassium chloride from Kevorkian, who argued during his trial that it was a "mercy killing."
"The only medical method for ending the interminable suffering of patients such as Thomas Youk is to provide them with an injection to permanently end their suffering, though such injection will hasten death," Kevorkian's lawyer, Mayer Morganroth, said in the appeal.
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