Wings of a Bird

Teenager Casts Light on a Shadowy Game - N.Y. Times
... What happened that October afternoon was that Levi passed out faster than he could react and suffered a heart attack, said his mother, Carrie. His brain was deprived of oxygen for more than three minutes.
Levi’s survival and recovery against the odds — three days in a coma followed by a regimen of antiseizure drugs that he still takes — have made him perhaps the first scared-straight, been-there-and-back spokesman against the choking game.
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Some medical examiners and pediatricians are looking at the increased teenage suicide rate from suffocation over the last decade and questioning whether dozens of deaths listed as suicide might in fact have been accidental, the result of a choking game experience gone wrong.
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Mentioning specific, narrow risks from the game, he said, like brain damage, medication and physical disfigurement can be even more powerful disincentives to adolescents than the idea of dying, which can seem theoretical or abstract. ...