Currents of the order of 0.1A through the human body are fatal. What causes the death: heating of the body due to electric current or something else?
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The causes of death is not heating due to current passing through a person. Though he may receive burns if the currents are too large. The cause of death is the interfernce of the external currents with our highly sensitive nervous system which is basically electrical in nature, which is basically electrical in nature, which inturn affect the heat beating. Beyond a certain point, this interference becomes fatal.
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