Cause of death listed as asphyxia. How do you kill yourself with asphyxia? I thought someone had to hold a pillow over your face or something like that.
Well, there’s hanging.
I’ll get flamed for saying this, but my first thought was some kind of auto-erotica involving self strangulation. He wouldn’t be the first to die like this.
Asphyxia is a polite way to say hanging.
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There's more than one way to cut off your oxygen. Suffocating yourself with car exhaust is asphyxiation.
I think when you run the car with the garage door down - that’s sometimes call asphyxia because carbon monoxide displaces needed oxygen.
Carbon monoxide or hanging.
My first thought was that he had hung himself. Asphyxia is a nicer word for it, I guess.