For all the sarcastic responses to this post, I can't find a single record of a death by CRT. I found lots of references to people accidentally touching the HV side of CRTs and receiving a painful shock but none of the shock causing any lasting issues.

Death by CRT is definitely possible in theory and the lack of real-world examples could be an issue of shoddy reporting (i.e. cardiac arrest due to electric shock minus a CRT as the specific reason) but I'd think think that across the millions and millions of CRTs sold there'd be at least one concrete report of a death.

Does anyone know of any?

It's too bad nobody has CRT's anymore. We used to build these in high school: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibW_x8lWWFM. Yes, it's entirely as awesome as it looks.

Yes, that must mean it was all lies and misinformation. Thanks for setting us straight on that.

Fascinating. Please share your insights about drink driving, we'd love to know.

Send out the Mythbusters bat-signal