In Geronimo, Texas a sixteen-year-old boy survived a "choking game", in which he pushed his neck onto a rope he slung across his bunk-bed frame. He lost all blood to his brain, passed-out, had a heart-attack, and spent three days in a coma.
“Asphyxiation games have been with us for generations, but what makes the current generation’s execution of this game different is that more kids are willing to play it alone,” said Dr. Thomas Andrew, the chief medical examiner in New Hampshire, who has consulted on 20 cases around the country where the game was suspected.
It really makes me wonder in which direction natural selection is taking our species.
If you haven't seen it, check out the movie Idiocracy. Depressing, yet interesting.
2 comments:
Well, like all of us, esp. as kids we learn and do stupid & foolish things. Kids don't think they will ever die. I know my son didn't think he would. He was 16 years old when he "tried" this "game" and it killed him. Since we have learned how kids are doing this to each other on busses, in schools, at parties - and then alone - which most of the time will kill them. It's something that needs awareness, just like drugs. I hope you bring more awareness to this, and talk about it with your friends, before it touches your life personally. I hate to hear of anyone going through the nightmare we have.
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sorry about your son......I guess we all felt indestructible when we were young......
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