Comments on: The choking game

By: judith

judith — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:41:05 +0000

What a fascinating article. When I read things like this I think I must have forgotten what it’s like being a child and growing up. I do remember I was lonely, but I don’t think I ever considered or even knew about such experiences. What a world we live in.

By: karrie

karrie — Fri, 30 May 2008 01:03:26 +0000

I really didnt think that this game was so big, I mean I heard about it on the tv and in the radio, but I didnt acually think it was happening. so unbeilievably sad. I didnt really know. you know, sometimes theres all these hoaxes about dangers but this one’s real.

I really hope my future kids never do this kind of thing, although hopefully I will be able to stop this game if I possibly can.

By: Dana

Dana — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:22:03 +0000

Yes, I hope education is the key. The first one isn’t so hard to talk about, but the AEA, infused as it is with “adult” themes is a little more touchy.

You don’t want to give a kid an idea.

By: Andrea

Andrea — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:00:37 +0000

When I was in highschool a teacher told us about holding your breath long enough until you felt you would pass out… He always added that if you did pass out, your body would take over and start breathing again… so there was no danger. It looks like the next generation took it a step further.

The goal is to give the information to your kids before someone else does… this way when their friend brings up the new cool ‘game’ your kid already knows the statistics. There is no such thing as protecting innocence in this day and age. Education is the key…I HOPE.

By: Shawna

Shawna — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 05:14:29 +0000

**Our boys do not have the same opportunities they once had to truly challenge themselves and take measured risks that were actually productive.**

I think this is what I was getting at… this is what is missing within our culture.

By: Kysha

Kysha — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 03:54:18 +0000

This is very unfortunate and very dumb. One of the morning shows did a special on this and there a you tube videos on this also. Some parents had lost their child to this while he was away at college. The survey they conducted stated that youth are doing this because it gives them a “high” and they are bored. They don’t realize that being bored to death will really cost your life in this game. So sad.

By: Barbara Frank

Barbara Frank — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 01:33:51 +0000

There is nothing new under the sun. I remember reading an interview with the late Katharine Hepburn. Her brother did this when he was a young teen; she found his body. She said she never got over it. How incredibly sad.

By: T F Stern

T F Stern — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 01:16:37 +0000

Way back in my other life when I was a night shift cop we’d run across this once in a while. I learned from a few of the young friends of departed youths that there was supposed to be some kind of sexual arousal associated with the near death choking that could only be achieved by suffocation. From all I could gather, these friends had achieved the sensation and lived to tell about it and considered the odds as worth the risk and that the death was a freakish accident that none of them considered worth worrying about; yea, now try telling that to the family. Thanks for posting on this grim side of growing up.

By: Dana

Dana — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:47:29 +0000

Shawna, I think it is part of being human. Especially because this is more prevalent among teenage boys, I think it has to do with risk taking, personal challenges, and the drugged like feeling.

Our boys do not have the same opportunities they once had to truly challenge themselves and take measured risks that were actually productive.

And this sort of thing has been around for awhile. A former co-worker of mine told us during a meeting how he did this sort of thing as a kid. Only it involved squatting and cutting off the blood supply to the brain by pressing the veins in the back of the knee. I suppose it is less dangerous because once you fall over, the blood flow returns automatically unlike when you actually have tied something around your neck.

But you still have potential brain damage from the fall and repeated lack of oxygen to the brain.

Scary stuff. I just wish that bubble Christy mentioned actually protected us and our children.

By: Shawna

Shawna — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:03:24 +0000

I have never heard of this… and it amazes me what people, young people especially, will do to “feel” something.

What does that say about our society? Not our homes, not our families, as you have pointed out that this still happens in families you would think it would, but with our society?

What is missing in our current culture that leaves individuals seeking a sense of “feeling” and “sensation?”