By RACHEL CANELLI
Bucks County Courier Times

"If you don't do something, someone's going to die. You should never bury your own child," Metheny told the crowd.

But Carol Connelly did. She lost her son Stephen two weeks shy of his 17th birthday. Stephen's brother and sister, then 10 and 7-years-old, found him one August morning in 2002 after he'd already been dead for eight hours.

Carol Connelly wears Stephen's class ring on a chain around her neck.

"He was doing something he didn't think would kill him," the former Morrisville resident said. "I don't think any child wants their family to live with that shock and trauma."

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Dangerous Choking Game Claims Life Of Young Girl

POSTED: 7:22 pm PST January 24, 2006

UPDATED: 10:52 am PST January 25, 2006

BEAR VALLEY SPRINGS -- The recent death of a Bear Valley Girl is bringing

attention to a "game" some kids are playing with deadly consequences.

Authorities say what happened to an 11 year old Bear Valley girl is being played by kids in the area and all over the country.

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Eleven-year-old dies of pass-out game

Eleven-year-old Jonathan Kelly

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An 11-year-old boy has died of self-inflicted wounds, but his family says it wasn't suicide. He was playing a deadly game most parents have never heard of.

Eleven-year-old Jonathan Kelly loved his skateboard, his guitar and football. Over the past year-and-a-half, mom Darlene says Jonathan also loved his hair, spending hours in the bathroom.

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