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  • HectorN this is SAD SAD news, rest in peace Mr. Carradine harrycaul seems like he was into auto erotic asphixiation to me. hanging naked in the closet, with a rope that wasn't from the hotel room, no signs of depression, no suicide note...

    Actor David Carradine Found Dead | /Film 2009

  • What election commentary was like in 1969: And yet always there is a strange seriousness, something in the system that warns us, warns us that America had better strike out on a different course, rather than face another 4 years of asphixiation by liberal premises....

    William F. Buckley, Jr. has died. Ann Althouse 2008

  • Having watched all of CSI season five, I couldn't face yet more blunt force trauma and auto-erotic asphixiation.

    Archive 2007-07-01 DAVID BISHOP 2007

  • Having watched all of CSI season five, I couldn't face yet more blunt force trauma and auto-erotic asphixiation.

    "America! F**k yeah!" DAVID BISHOP 2007

  • I've never smoked, but used to have several friends who did, and while their habit didn't bother me when they were off elsewhere, long periods of time in the company of profusive smokers always made me nauseous and triggered a recurring nightmare of being trapped in a small room slowly dying of asphixiation.

    Archive 2005-12-01 Alistair Myles 2005

  • I've never smoked, but used to have several friends who did, and while their habit didn't bother me when they were off elsewhere, long periods of time in the company of profusive smokers always made me nauseous and triggered a recurring nightmare of being trapped in a small room slowly dying of asphixiation.

    In abstinentia Alistair Myles 2005

  • One said the purple smartie reminded her of asphixiation another talked of homosexuality.

    motivate-me1 Diary Entry motivate-me1 2004

  • Mr. Jones own body weight was a signifigant factor in his asphixiation and must resort to baseless allegations in order to buttress your position.

    CCA Conclusions On Nate Jones' Death Nathaniel Livingston 2004

  • I'm just out of whack, I think there are too many things to do, but I'm not going about doing them, and so when they all pile up on me like this, I feel that they're going to crash down on top of me and I will be buried in a pile of "to do's" - that will eventually suffocate me, and I'll die from mental asphixiation.

    moschikat Diary Entry moschikat 2003

  • Quebec autopsy says boxer Arturo Gatti died of asphixiation; no proof 3rd party involved Arturo Gatti died of asphyxiation by "neck constriction," autopsy says Mitch Abramson

    NYDN Rss MITCH ABRAMSON 2011

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