On Sun, 17 Apr 2016 10:17:03 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

This is also an issue, surprisingly frequent,
for persons with Narcolepsy and Cataplexy.

Forget that, what about plain old forgetfulness? As the population ages,
more and more of us will soon be suffering more from various dementias.

Given that almost all modern ranges have electronic controls, I am at a
loss to understand why safety regulators have not imposed timeouts on all
stovetop controls. Each and every control should have a default (10
minute?) timeout which can be easily bumped up again by pushing an
'increment' button before it times out.

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