[blackbart.223]

"The electrocution thing backfired -- Edison was trying to win the war of the currents, and in order to do that was trying to show that AC power was inherently unsafe.

In some ways it is. At the frequency we generate A.C. it is more apt to cause cardiac arrhythmia as is D.C.. All things being equal.

[Old Professer]

The true cause of death from electrocution is frying of the brain matter; all else is coincidental; D.C. at sufficient rectified voltage, >2500 volts will break the skin resistance and serum sodium levels take over for conductance.