[The Great RJ]

Really nothing new...in my paramedic days it was called auto-erotic asphyxia. I remember one case where a guy hanged himself with a belt from a closet door while wearing his girlfriend's clothes. Saw another strange case where a 9 year old deliberately choked himself with a dog leash with fatal results. All this was more than a decade ago.

[BansheeBill]

Really nothing new...in my paramedic days it was called auto-erotic asphyxia.

I think it was in 1969 when the pretty well known underground cartoonist Vaughn Bode killed himself in that manner. No, it's not new at all. I had some friends who were paramedics in the 70's who had some truly amazing on the job stories, stuff only cops and paramedics saw.