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The Choking Game

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.”

juan says:
March 14, 2007 @ 9:59PM EST
we shoul not let kids play the choking game
sarah says:
April 8, 2007 @ 3:19PM EST
well what can i say it is silly the amount of familys that are upset were they have lost some one and it is all over a game.The people that have died of this so called game have died at a younge age and missed the rest of their life and it is very up seting.
Bill says:
January 22, 2008 @ 6:37PM EST
We had a friend whose 14-year old daughter just died from this. Evidently someone on an internet site or game had suggested it as a way to get "high" without drugs. Devastating to her parents.
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