[AxelPaulsenJr]

Was probably also masturbating at the time. A youth in our town died that way a few years ago.

[sine_nomine]

Our doctor's son died this way. Apparently he was doing this regularly. It was so awful that the parents divorced. The doctor was never the same. It was their only child. He said, "The worst thing is how the body is discovered."

Many magazines and other sources have promoted the eroticism of this practice.

[SuziQ]

It's called autoeroticism. Unfortunately, kids and adults have been doing it for years, sometimes, as in this case, to deadly effect.