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Deaths often occur when the loss of consciousness caused by partial asphyxia leads to loss of control over the means of strangulation, resulting in continued asphyxia and death. Victims are often found to have rigged some sort of "rescue mechanism" which has not worked in the way they anticipated as they lost consciousness. It has also been speculated that in some cases autoerotic asphyxiation may have triggered the little-known phenomenon of Carotid Sinus Reflex Death . It is a popular subject in Tabloid s and celebrity gossip magazines, particularly when a celebrity dies as a result of Suicide or other mysterious circumstances. Such was reputedly the case with the deaths of Jerzy Kosiński (in 1991) and Michael Hutchence (in 1997), though no evidence to support the claim was produced in either case. The artist Vaughn Bodé died from this cause in 1975. The death in 1994 of Stephen Milligan , the British Conservative MP for Eastleigh, was a case of auto-erotic asphyxiation combined with Self-bondage . This combination is particularly lethal. A more recent case is the death in 2004 National Front member Kristian Etchells . {Link without Title} {Link without Title} Recent court cases have come to varied results as to whether the unintentional death resulting from autoerotic asphyxiation falls under the "self-induced injury" clause of standard Life Insurance policies, which prevents payouts for suicide. In June of 2003, one US court said the intent was not death and therefore the case was an accident {Link without Title} , while another in August 2003 said it does technically fall within the terms since death is the logical result of asphyxiation {Link without Title} . CULTURAL REFERENCES Autoerotic asphyxiation is key to the plots of many books, movies, and TV shows. Included is an accidental death in the film '''', an episode of the League Of Gentlemen and is mentioned and talked about in the 2005 George Carlin HBO Special '' Life Is Worth Losing ''. In the movie "Life As A House" the main character Sam (Hayden Christensen) is depicted indulging in autoerotic asphyxiation in the first few scenes. In the X-Files episode " Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose " (first aired Friday, October 13, 1995), the psychic Bruckman (played by Peter Boyle , who won an Outstanding Guest Actor Emmy for the part) implies that Special Agent Fox Mulder will die of AEA. EXTERNAL LINKS
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