I am thankful you did post on the choking game. The word does need to get out. Last reported there were 500 deaths in 2004 of this "choking game". Kids think nothing will hurt them - this is not a drug - just one time, etc. My son was one of them. He was only 16. He was a "good kid". He would have never tried drugs. He loved life - loved his 9 siblings - and most of all loved God. He had compassion for people. But, he learned of a game - this game he lost - lost his life. He tried the "choking game". His 11 year old brother found him hanging. His 15 year old brother cut him down. We are at almost a year since his death, and it's still very hard. This game is dangerous, foolish, and mostly likely WILL cause death.
Please continue to talk and share about this. More families need to know the dangers of this. We never knew about the choking game before our son died. We thought his death was suicide at first, and then learned about the choking game, and the Medical Examiner ruled it as "accidental asphyxiation". It was a relief to know he did not die from suicide, and it was truly an accident, yet a foolish accident Had we known of this, just as we talked to him about drugs, sex, sniffing, etc. we would have talked to him about this. But we didn't know - and he didn't know the risks.
Thank you for letting me share here. I hope our son's story can help save lives.
BTW, if you go to my blog, on the side I have a link to "Blog Explossion". If you sign up with that, they do put your blog through for others to see, and it's a neat way of finding others.
I struggle with doing this. I learned about it and did it for the first time at a sleepover at age nine. I wish someone had warned me, because it's been like an addiction in my life. Please encourage people not to start doing this. It's not worth the high or pleasure you get. I haven't done it really seriously (with a noose) for a few months now, but I still do it to a lesser extent almost every night, though I am really trying to stop. There needs to be education on this.
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I am thankful you did post on the choking game. The word does need to get out. Last reported there were 500 deaths in 2004 of this "choking game". Kids think nothing will hurt them - this is not a drug - just one time, etc. My son was one of them. He was only 16. He was a "good kid". He would have never tried drugs. He loved life - loved his 9 siblings - and most of all loved God. He had compassion for people. But, he learned of a game - this game he lost - lost his life. He tried the "choking game". His 11 year old brother found him hanging. His 15 year old brother cut him down. We are at almost a year since his death, and it's still very hard. This game is dangerous, foolish, and mostly likely WILL cause death.
Please continue to talk and share about this. More families need to know the dangers of this. We never knew about the choking game before our son died. We thought his death was suicide at first, and then learned about the choking game, and the Medical Examiner ruled it as "accidental asphyxiation". It was a relief to know he did not die from suicide, and it was truly an accident, yet a foolish accident Had we known of this, just as we talked to him about drugs, sex, sniffing, etc. we would have talked to him about this. But we didn't know - and he didn't know the risks.
Thank you for letting me share here. I hope our son's story can help save lives.
BTW, if you go to my blog, on the side I have a link to "Blog Explossion". If you sign up with that, they do put your blog through for others to see, and it's a neat way of finding others.
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I struggle with doing this. I learned about it and did it for the first time at a sleepover at age nine. I wish someone had warned me, because it's been like an addiction in my life. Please encourage people not to start doing this. It's not worth the high or pleasure you get. I haven't done it really seriously (with a noose) for a few months now, but I still do it to a lesser extent almost every night, though I am really trying to stop. There needs to be education on this.
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