It isn't, but unfortunately I just heard about the principal from The Breakfast Club. :(
http://www.kesq.com/global/story.asp?s=4959923&ClientType=Printable
You don't often hear of folks dying from mesothelioma anymore. Poor guy.
I live about 15 miles or so from where the old Johns-Manville asbestos factory was. It had an a amazingly disproportionate number of mesothelioma fatalities.