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    CDC: Death count 82 for 'choking game'

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080214/...n3GrrdVaGs0NUE

    ATLANTA - At least 82 youths have died from the so-called "choking game," according to the first government count of fatalities from the tragic fad.


    As many as 20 percent of teens and preteens play the game, sometimes in groups, according to estimates based on a few local studies. But nearly all the deaths were youths who played alone, according to the count compiled by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

    The CDC started the research after receiving a letter last year from a Tacoma, Wash., physician who said her 13-year-old son died from playing the game in 2005.

    "At the time I had never heard of this," said Dr. Patricia Russell, whose son was found hanging in his closet, but later learned he had talked to a friend about it.

    "One thing that really needs to happen — and is starting to happen now — is to get more information about how common this is," she said.

    The CDC counted cases from news reports and advocacy organizations in the years 1995 through 2007, totaling 82 fatalities of children ages 6 to 19. They did not include deaths in which it was unclear if the death was from the choking game or if it was a suicide. They also did not include deaths that involved autoerotic asphyxiation, which is self-strangulation during masturbation and is said to be mainly done by teenage boys or men.

    The 82 deaths were spread across 31 states. Nearly 90 percent were boys, at an average age of about 13, the CDC found.

    Three or fewer deaths were reported from 1995 through 2004. They jumped to 22 in 2005, 35 in 2006 and at least nine in 2007. It's not clear what drove the increase in recent years, investigators said.

    The report is being published this week in a CDC publication, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

    CDC officials urged parents to be aware the fad exists, and to watch for possible warning signs like bloodshot eyes, marks on the neck, frequent and severe headaches, disorientation after spending time alone, and ropes, scarves or belts tied to bedroom furniture or doorknobs or found knotted on the floor.

    The authors acknowledged that 82 is probably an undercount. They could not rely on death certificates, which do not differentiate choking-game deaths from other unintentional strangulation deaths. Instead, they relied mainly on a news database that is large but doesn't include all media outlets.

    It's likely that there are about 100 U.S. choking game deaths each year, said Dr. Tom Andrew, New Hampshire's chief medical examiner, who has been studying the phenomenon for several years.

    Andrew said many coroners and medical examiners likely label the deaths as suicides because they don't have the time or resources to interview a victim's friends and look for alternate explanations.

    Many of the children who died from the choking game were described as bright, athletic students who apparently were intrigued by a method of getting high that doesn't involve drugs or alcohol, he said.

    They watch it on YouTube, or hear about it in school or at summer camp, said Sharron Grant, a Canadian woman who was a founder of an advocacy group called Games Adolescents Shouldn't Play (GASP).

    Choking game fatalities are not nearly as common as suicide deaths among youths who choose hanging or suffocation. About 5,100 such suicide deaths were reported from 1995 through 2007, and while it's possible some were unrecognized choking game deaths, most were believed to be actual suicides, said Robin Toblin, a CDC epidemiologist.

    The game is also known by names that include "blackout," "space monkey" and "pass out," Toblin and others said.

    Variations of the game have been around for decades, but the trend of doing it alone seems to be recent, Andrew said.
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    Calif. boy's death attributed to 'choking game'
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    SANTA MONICA, Calif. – Police say a 12-year-old Southern California boy is dead after he apparently asphyxiated himself for thrills in the so-called "choking game."

    The Santa Monica Police Department said Wednesday the boy died last week after tying a rope to his neck inside his home. Officers found him in cardiac arrest, and he died at the hospital soon after.

    Police say the case is being investigated as an accidental death.

    The goal of the "choking game" is to temporarily cut off blood supply and oxygen to the brain to cause a quick euphoric sensation.

    According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 82 children died playing the game from 1995 to 2007.

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100429/...xpZmJveXNkZWE-

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    Maybe this is Gods way of weeding out the stupid?

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    So did he win the game????

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    darwin would be proud

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    Give that kid a Darwin Award!

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    u dudes are sick and probably have no children or are cold hearted bds

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    I'm all choked up over this one

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    Wow. The lack of human empathy in humans.

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    The game. you have lost.

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    You people are disgusting. He was a child and is dead.

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    Sad, so sad...please don't rub any more salt to the wound of his family.
    After all, he is only 12-year-old.

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    ... like Forrest Gump says "stupid is, is stupid does".....

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    Insensitive, hard hearted people shouldn't have the right to free speech...

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    Choking game, is that like the "how fat you can get by playing video games" game?

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    wow thats sad R.I.P. little boy.

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    Another Darwin Award nominee. What a dumb ass. Good riddance.

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    Very sad to see the comments that are posted here but not surprising.
    In a world that murders their unborn and leaves their children to be raised by society
    it would only be fitting to make light of yet another new killer amongst us.

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    That's really terrible. And we lost Michael Hutchins and David Carridine in the grown up version of this, among others.
    Tie something around your neck and hang, and it's not going to go well.....

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    me thinks of all those other innocents who have for centuries been at the wrong end of a rope. Hung for hate. Hung for race.
    He hung himself for kicks. What a sad, sorry, idiot. Good parenting ??? Hummm

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    How come officers had to find this boy - where were the parents?

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    I agree it seems such an obviously stupid thing for them to do,,, and then I think back and remember some of the jackass things we did for fun when I was a kid...dying is the furthest thing from most kids minds...I can never remember thinking gee we could die from..using alcohol to light your fingers on fire...or spinning around til you're dizzy then holding your breath while someone bear hugs you so tight you pass out...or riding a shopping cart downhill and sometimes unable to stop before reaching the intersection...
    NOW I would absolutely KILL my kids if they tried any of those things!

    All we can do is keep them informed...its like throwing spaghetti at the wall...
    ...you just have to hope that some of the stuff we throw at them sticks.
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    Is this similar to the game we played where we would hyperventilate and then blow on our thumbs and pass out? Did anyone else do that? It was so stupid. There was one boy who loved to do it and always fell on his face and busted his lip open!!
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    this is sad....I never tried anything of the sort, but I am pretty straight laced

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    Quote Originally Posted by buglebe View Post
    Is this similar to the game we played where we would hyperventilate and then blow on our thumbs and pass out? Did anyone else do that? It was so stupid. There was one boy who loved to do it and always fell on his face and busted his lip open!!
    I don't remember that, but I remember somewhat of kids holding there breath untill they passed out, or even someone would hold you like in a neck, choke hold untill you passed out. I never did it though, it looked pretty stupid, and scarey to do.

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    This was my daughter's classmate. His memorial was last night. It is truly sad and sick to see so many screwed up comments


    Quote Originally Posted by Jolie Rouge View Post
    Calif. boy's death attributed to 'choking game'
    25 mins ago


    SANTA MONICA, Calif. – Police say a 12-year-old Southern California boy is dead after he apparently asphyxiated himself for thrills in the so-called "choking game."

    The Santa Monica Police Department said Wednesday the boy died last week after tying a rope to his neck inside his home. Officers found him in cardiac arrest, and he died at the hospital soon after.

    Police say the case is being investigated as an accidental death.

    The goal of the "choking game" is to temporarily cut off blood supply and oxygen to the brain to cause a quick euphoric sensation.

    According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 82 children died playing the game from 1995 to 2007.

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100429/...xpZmJveXNkZWE-

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    Peachy - I am so sorry for your loss. Please give your daughter a hug from me.

    I posted the comments because they were so over the top cruel that they had to be seen to be believed. How can people be like that ? How does their mind work ??


    The only thing we can do is show our children how dangerous this is and hope for the best .... and pray
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    Jolie - Thank you for the hugs. The whole school and community is really rocked by this.

    Unfortunately, people are effed. Plain and simple. It's so rare to see common decency anymore.

    Quote Originally Posted by Jolie Rouge View Post
    Peachy - I am so sorry for your loss. Please give your daughter a hug from me.

    I posted the comments because they were so over the top cruel that they had to be seen to be believed. How can people be like that ? How does their mind work ??


    The only thing we can do is show our children how dangerous this is and hope for the best .... and pray

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    The 'Choking Game': 1 in 7 College Kids Has Tried It
    By BONNIE ROCHMAN | Time.com – 4 hrs ago.


    College students aren't necessarily renowned for their good judgment, and a new study reinforces that, finding that nearly one in seven co-eds has played the Choking Game, which is every bit as dangerous as it sounds.

    Also called the Fainting Game, Pass Out, or Space Monkey, the Choking Game can be played individually or in groups. It consists of manually choking yourself or others, sticking a plastic bag over the head, tying a string around the neck or hyperventilating, all in search of a few seconds of euphoria.

    Researchers at The Crime Victims' Institute at Sam Houston State University surveyed 837 students at a Texas university and found that the behavior, which works by cutting off blood flow to the brain in order to induce a high, was frighteningly commonplace:

    •16% of students said they'd played the game, and three-quarters more than once
    •On average, students first played the game at age 14
    •Males were more likely to have played than females
    •90% of students who had played the game learned about it from friends, and most students said they first played in a group

    Why in the world would kids engage in this potentially deadly behavior? In a word, curiosity. They may also not realize it has the potential to be just as deadly as illegal drugs. The good news is that learning that a number of teens and college students have suffocated to death from playing the Choking Game helped deter students from playing. Parents, talk to your kids. And schools can play a role too: related research found that 90% of parents think that including information about the dangers of the game in school health and drug prevention classes is a smart idea.

    As the study notes:

    "This 'game,' as it is often called, does not require obtaining any drugs or alcohol, is free, and can go undetected by many parents, teachers, physicians, and other authority figures. Most importantly, many of those who engage in this activity, do not understand that the practice can be just as deadly as the illegal substances youth have been warned against."

    http://news.yahoo.com/choking-game-1...104023904.html

    many of those who engage in this activity, do not understand that the practice can be just as deadly as the illegal substances youth have been warned against."
    College sudents who don't realise cutting off oxygen to the brain is a bad idea. Great. Welocme to our "Future"

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    They never seem to want to play 'Mow the Yard Game'.

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    Back when I was that age (after dinosaurs and before pcs) if you got caught choking your chicken you died of embarrassment. With the choking game, you just die.

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    College age kids are doing this? Just where on the bell curve might they be? There's never a shortage of contestants up for the Darwin award.

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    I get high by clubbing myself in the head until my skull cracks. What a rush.

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    I can just see my healthcare premiums going up again to cover the cost of hundreds of brain-dead 20-somethings on life support.

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    Hmmmmmmmm boredom has been taken to entirely new level I see. Tell me kiddies - think ya can think of like a MILLION other things you could be doing with your lives other than passing out with a plastic bag over your heads? Come on now - think really, REALLY, haaaaaarrrrrrrrrrd.


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    I have honestly never heard of this. I am a college student, and I know a lot of my schoolmates party, but I spend my time studying and working, which is what people should be doing in college.

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