Sweat lodge deaths ruled accidental

Three deaths that occurred in October of 2009 were ruled accidental by their autopsy results. They all attended a sweat lodge ceremony with James Arthur Ray, a best-selling author. The sweat lodge consisted of tarps and blankets being assembled into a dome shape with water and hot rocks to create the steam. James Shore, who is only 40 years old, died from a heat stroke caused by the steam. 38 year old Kirby Brown died the same way. Lizbeth Neuman organs failed due to this event and caused her to die at only age 49. Along with these 3 deaths were 20 others who became sick. The author pleaded not guilty for killing these people. His lawyers claim he tried to prevent anythings like this from happening by having many nurses and medical professionals at the site. It's been decided that this was all an accident.

I've never heard of sweat house ceremonies taking place before, so that was new to me. I'm surprised those are even in effect. I think when it reaches a point that people are dying or becoming ill, that limits need to be set. The 3 people who died were all very young. None of them were even 50! While I do believe that James Arthur Ray may not have purposefully murdered these people, I hope that he'll either eliminate these sweat lodges or hold proper precautions with it. It has proven to be a very dangerous act and therefore shouldn't be taken lightly. http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/03/17/arizona.sweat.lodge.deaths/index.html?eref=rss_topstories&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_topstories+%28RSS%3A+Top+Stories%29