Clearly true - but you can die suddenly, and when least expecting it, as a result of an unsafe electrical installation. In the latter case, you might have a few seconds' awareness of your impending doom, rather than simply 'not waking up', but the bottom line is remarkably similar!There are crucial differences. One, for example, is that you can't die in your sleep from invisible, inaudible, odorless and tasteless compounds arising from improperly consumed electricity.
No? You must have missed out on some of those fun O-Level Chemistry practical demonstrations... there isn't really any such thing as a small gas explosion.
It would be interesting to know whether the differing attitudes to electrical and gas DIY is based on evidence or emotion/myth. We know that the number of deaths due to electrical DIY must be incredibly low (since the total number of deaths due to electrical installations is extremely low). Does anyone have any idea as to whether (at least in the past) deaths due to DIY gas work were appreciably more common than the corresponding 'electrical deaths'?
Kind Regards, John