Suicide rates among Canadian girls rising

Suicides are increasing at an alarming rate among Canadian girls, with hanging, strangulation and other forms of suffocation now the predominant methods used by children and adolescents — regardless of sex — to kill themselves.
It’s a disturbing phenomenon that researchers speculate may be linked to the increasing popularity of the “choking game”, raising the possibility that unintentional strangulation deaths from the “game” — in which children strangle themselves or friends in order to cut off the flow of blood and oxygen to the brain and induce a euphoric high — are being recorded as suicides, say the authors of the report, which also suggests the Internet may be fuelling the trend.




