Messages By: ppldrgnfly

This message is to all who have lost a child to this stupid game, or who know someone doing this. 

I am the mother of a son who died at age 11 playing this game. I had never heard of it & had no idea. I found him 3 days after he turned 11 dead next to his bunk bed with a belt around his neck & tied to his top bunk. No parent should ever have to see their child like this. But unfortunately this happens much more than anyone ralizes, and I understand the hurt. 

This issue really needs to be talked about at PTA meetings, and introduced into the DARE program. This game is the same thing as doing drugs or playing Russian Roulette. The problem is there are a lot of people, parents inparticular, who have never heard of this game & have know idea what their children are doing. If we don't know about it then we can't know waht to look for & what to talk to our children about.  

I do not want this to happen to anyone else, and I firmly believe the only way we can get a handle on this problem is by talking to our children & letting them be honest with us.  

Love & prayers to all 

I know exactly what you are going through, I found my 11 year old son with a belt around his neck that was tied to his top bunk. He looked like he was praying & I didn't see the belt at first.  

"thank you for the show" means thank you for talking about this and getting the word out. This has been going on for a lot longer than most people realise. The police told me the reason I had never heard of this, even though the statistics are so high, is because the families this happens to are either too embarassed or too ashamed to talk about it because of what it is really called. In adults it's called "Auto erotic asphyxiation" which mean they're doing it for sexual reasons. 

Love and prayers