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Breath
Author: Tim Winton
A couple of weeks ago, they were talking in the news about the death of a 15 year old girl who was playing the “choking game”, which instantly reminded me of Breath.
I don’t recall if the asphyxiation has a proper name in the book, but definitely it was not choking game, and to be honest, I didn’t quite understand what the author was talking about at that time. It seems the game is to either put your head inside a plastic bag and strand it to the neck with a belt or just use the belt, to provoke “an euphoric high through self asphyxiation”, but the person has to know exactly when to loosen the belto so not to die. According to the news, there are videos in YouTube teaching how to do it properly (seriously???).
