Showing posts with label death. Show all posts
Showing posts with label death. Show all posts

11.22.2008

Lynx Deodorant Kills 12 Year-Old Boy

There is a very reasonable assumption that the passive inhalation (of the solvent in the deodorant) almost certainly led to his death."

Derby and South Derbyshire Coroner Dr Robert Hunter gave the cause of death as a "cardiac arrhythmia, exacerbated by exposure to solvents".

Cardiac arrhythmia is an abnormal heart rhythm leading the heart to beat too fast or too slowly, which can lead to cardiac arrest or sudden death.

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11.13.2008

Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. Knoll Dies At 78

"Today we mourn the passing of one of the strongest, most dedicated public servants in Pennsylvania's history," Gov. Ed Rendell said. "Our thoughts and prayers are with Catherine's family. She will be deeply missed."

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11.12.2008

Jimi Hendrix Experience Drummer, Mitch Mitchell, Dies at 61

Mitchell had a hand-- two very able hands, in fact-- in rock and roll history as part of the Experience in the late 1960s. He played in the Pretty Things and Georgie Fame's Blue Flames before joining Hendrix, and even served as part of the Dirty Mac supergroup that John Lennon assembled for the Rolling Stones' 1968 "Rock and Roll Circus" event, playing alongside Keith Richards, Eric Clapton, and Lennon himself. Two years after Hendrix's death in 1970, he formed the trio Ramatam, and went on to do session work for a number of musicians and partake in several Hendrix tributes.

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