"It only takes a couple minutes to bleed to death by hitting not even a major artery. "
1 - it is extremely unlikely that you would cut yourself just by passing out with knife in your hand.
2 - It _does_ take a long time to bleed to death if you do not cut a major artery. You don't know what you are talking about.
"If you're slumped over the source of the gas it will only take a few minutes to kill you."
Yeah if this were somewhere near the turn of the century this would make sense. Just for argument's sake say some people are relighting the pilot light on their stove or water heater. You think they are going to pass out in just the right way that - I don't know - the gas fitting goes up their nose and they stay there fro 2:17. Because that's what it would take. You would not be overcome be gas if you fell asleep for two minutes before lighting the pilot.
"And the candle probably wouldn't kill anyone... but if an edge of a sleeve caught the candle flame"
Again you think any meaningful number of people are going to somehow pass out with their sleeve held over a candle flame. Or I don't know. Is every you know wearing gasoline soaked or sulphur-impregnated, or clothes that for some reason go up in a flash?
Could these thing happen? Sure. The likelihood is so outrageously infinitesimal it is not even statistically significant. It does not support the estimates of
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