Initially ruled a suicide, 13-year-old Chelsea Dunn may have accidentally killed herself by what some kids call a game.
“They
call it something dreaming,” says twenty-year-old Kelly Pilger. Sarah
Johnson remembers, “They call it fainting each other.”
Self-asphyxiation-choking
each other or themselves, which produces a kind of high. “Press people
up against a wall, until they didn’t have any oxygen, until they passed
out,” describes Kelly. Jessica Fuller says “[they] probably do it for
about four hours at a time, like repeatedly, over and over again.”