In Indiana, a teenager died after a popular on social networks Challenge

The parents of an Indiana teenager are warning families about the dangers of challenges that are being widely circulated on social media. The boy, whose age was not specified, suffered life-threatening injuries as a result of the “choking game.” In fact, the teenager was declared dead, but his body is still supported by machines so that the boy can become an organ donor.

Joan Jackson Bogard posted on Facebook that her son Mason Bogard was involved in a “choking game” on the evening of May 1, she writes. USA Today. For several days, doctors fought for his life, but they could not do anything - brain death was recorded. The boy's body is on artificial life support so that his organs do not die - the family is planning a donation.

“We learned that Mason tried a challenge he saw on social media and it ended horribly,” Bogard wrote.

The challenge is commonly known as the "choking game". The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) defines the game as self- or assisted strangulation using a noose or hand to achieve a short-term state of euphoria.

“Unfortunately, this game has taken the lives of many young people, including our precious Mason,” Bogard wrote.

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A 2008 CDC report mentioned that 82 children ages 6 to 19 died after playing "choking games" between 1995 and 2007 (2007 was the last year the agency provided for statistics).

71 of the 82 children who died were boys.

Bogard said her Facebook post is a call for other parents to pay attention to their children's behavior on social media.

“I know our children always complain that we are too overprotective of them, but that’s normal, that’s our job,” the woman wrote.

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Bogard said that while the family is "devastated that we will never meet Mason again, we take some comfort in the fact that Mason will save the lives of others" through organ donation.

“He would love to do this,” the mother wrote on Facebook. “He was an extremely generous young man.”

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