Choking Game Analysis

“Erik died April 21, 2010 from the Choking Game. He was a normal, healthy 6th grader at Lincoln Middle School in Santa Monica, California - an "A" student, avid athlete and boy scout. His dream was to go to West Point, enter the military and then law enforcement. He was the opposite of a youth "at risk". Credible evidence indicates that Erik's first exposure to the choking game was during school the day before he tried it at home and died” (Erik's Cause, 2012). This unfortunately is the story of many kids who have died or suffered any trauma from playing this “game”. The statistics are there, the real life stories are all around. All we need to do is sit down and teach the students that it is a scary world but we make the decision in this scary world.
This so called “game” is played to achieve a high like feeling. Kids have started playing this game because it is free, parents have a terribly hard time finding
teenagers have played deadly 'choking game' and nearly 100 have died in bid for 'natural high'.” This statistic is alarming because that one in sixteen could be a student who is getting on that bandwagon at a hastle and creating a roller coaster which is extremely hard to step of from. Anyone can play this so called “game” but it is most common in boys as the The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention “has documented 82 deaths between 1995 and 2007 attributable to the “choking game;” 87% of the victims were boys”
(Thomas, 2009). These statistics are extremely worrying. The single idea that these could be any student like Eric, they may have some future in some kind of sport or in any other type of field and they are making the decision to risk themselves is frightening. This should make anyone realize that some kind of contribution to stop this “game” is to educate and not only just leave it to the parents , but the schools to show their students the high