As is the case in many deaths resulting from the Choking Game, some in the community speculated it was suicide. [Teen’s Death in ‘Choking Game’ Focuses Attention on Dangerous Practice]The consequences can be deadly. She first heard of the Choking Game after a summer football coach mentioned the game, she told the newspaper. “I should have pushed it further,” Stacy Pope told the Herald. The family says their son was playing the blackout, or choking, game.

Source: Washington Post September 06, 2016 11:34 UTC