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The Choking Game
Some medical examiners and doctors are looking at the increase in teenage suicide rates from suffocation over the last decade and questioning whether some might in fact have been accidental, the result of a choking game experience gone wrong. In the game, teens (and sometimes children) use a strap of some kind wrapped around their necks to temporarily cut blood flow to the head. One variation of the game involves holding your breath and getting punched in the chest until you black out. Yet another version involves bending over and trying to induce hyperventilation by taking deep breaths followed by someone giving them a