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Teen killed in "freak accident" while "playing" the passing out "game"

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1sikbITCH said:
We just called that hyperventilating when I was a kid. You suck 10 deep breaths while bending over and then your buddy snatches you in the air and as you come down a quick crushing squeeze to the chest puts you right out. Nobody died but the one time I allowed myself to be talked into it I was terrified. Can't understand the appeal.

Edit - actually the sensation is pretty much the same as a whippit so I guess I can see the appeal, although I am not a fan of whippits either.
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People have died doing this, it causes prolong oxygen deprivation to the brain and brain damage. Death can result.
 
"Freak" accident?
When you purposely pass out...you fall on things. Some things are sharp, nothing freaky about that.
 
Yes Darwin...

Kids have played this game since I was a kid, and I suspect far longer than that. In all that time this is the only death related to it, and it has more to do with general safety and horrible luck than the act of passing out.

By the way, the payoff is instant REM sleep. You wake up from a vivid dream in a few seconds, but while you're out it can seem like far longer. Try it. I fully advocate it.
 
SphinxnihpS said:
Yes Darwin...

Kids have played this game since I was a kid, and I suspect far longer than that. In all that time this is the only death related to it, and it has more to do with general safety and horrible luck than the act of passing out.

By the way, the payoff is instant REM sleep. You wake up from a vivid dream in a few seconds, but while you're out it can seem like far longer. Try it. I fully advocate it.
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This isn't the only death.

Their are cases of children not waking up, and children falling and striking their head and dying.
 
DCal430 said:
This isn't the only death.

Their are cases of children not waking up, and children falling and striking their head and dying.
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Links?

All the deaths I can find are similar to this. It is not the act of hyperventilation which is dangerous, all deaths are from falling and hitting heads or accidental strangulation (because they're doing it wrong). Stupids is an incurable condition.

Anyway, really low numbers and I see no scientific information, all anecdotal, all estimated, mostly scare media, or the occasional myopic story from someone close.

The passing out is due to low oxygen to the brain, not from strangulation, but from low CO2 in the blood.

Feel free to back your shit up or back the fuck up.
 
I don't understand why you would go to such extents as trying to pass out just to get high or whatever, knowing there will be a risk of dying doing so
 
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