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"A 15-year-old boy was found dead a week ago with a belt around his neck. His mother believes he was the victim of the choking game.\"R.J. was a beautiful young man. He was such a good big brother,\" mother Jean Monroe said.By all accounts, R.J. Monroe wasn't troubled and left no suicide note, but was found dead in his bedroom, partially suspended by a belt around his neck.\"Unfortunately, my 5-year-old daughter found him. And so we already had to explain to her that he made a big mistake, and he put something around his neck, and you never put anything around your neck, because you don't know what's going to happen to you. And you might have to go to be an angel,\" Monroe said.She said she believes R.J. was experimenting with the so-called choking game, depriving the brain of oxygen in an attempt to produce a high.\"If you're alone, and you're trying it, and you pass out before you can get that belt off of your neck, which is what happened to him, there's no one there to save you. And you just die,\" Monroe said.R.J. was a student at Racine's Horlick High School. His mom said the whole reason she's coming forward is to warn his friends and other teens just how dangerous the choking game is.\"We were blindsided, completely,\" R.J.'s stepfather, Scott Monroe, said.R.J. had just given his mom his Christmas list, and shortly before he was found dead, he texted his girlfriend to say he'd call her when he was done with his homework.R.J.'s parents said if their A and B student could be experimenting with it, all parents need to talk to their kids.\"We can't get him back, but we can help somebody else to learn about it, like to watch out for it and let the kids know this is real and this is not something they should be playing with, Jeana Monroe said.Racine police are meeting with the medical examiner Thursday, but police said there's nothing to indicate R.J. intentionally committed suicide.There's a wealth of information for parents about the choking game available from the Dangerous Behaviors Foundation at http://chokinggame.net/ According to the latest numbers from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, 82 kids died of the choking game between 1995-2007.Boys are much more likely to die than girls. Almost 90 percent of the victims were between the ages of 11 and 16 years old.The CDC recommends parents look out for bloodshot eyes, marks on the neck and frequent and severe headaches."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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