Mom Spends Day Spending Writing 12-Yr-Old's Obituary After Son Dies Playing 'Choking Game'
Have you heard about the “Choking Game?” This horrible game is leaving many people dead in search of a quick high.
The idea is that by cutting off oxygen flow to the brain you will receive a rush, but it comes with high stakes. This game has taken many victims and one grieving Utah mother wants to warn those who think that the high is worth the risk.
Celestia Muai is planning her 12-year-old son’s funeral after he died playing this deadly game with friends.
She found her son, Tua, unconscious and quickly called 911, but it was too late. “He was playing a game and he didn’t think things through,” she said.
A YouCaring page set up to help the single mother of eight pay for the funeral expenses described Tua as a “light and joy” to those who knew him. His smile was infectious and he always sought out new adventures, but his family is now left with only memories and pictures of this precious young boy.
Michael Ballard, Tua’s uncle, went to the hospital to support his sister soon after they arrived. He said, “To see my sister there grieving at the side of her son on a hospital bed was very very difficult as my heart tore for her.”
“Try to imagine what it would be like and multiply that by infinity and that’s kind of what it’s like … there’s no words,” Celestia explained.
Instead of celebrating Mother’s Day like most moms did, she spent the day making funeral arrangements for her son.
“I spent Mother’s Day planning my son’s funeral, writing his obituary, instead of having breakfast or flowers or ‘I love you, mom,'” she said while trying to hold back tears.
Tua’s football team is also feeling the loss of their teammate. His coach, Bryan Ellison, became a father figure to Tua after his father passed away a year and a half ago.
“This one hurt, this hurts,” he said. “It was like ice in my veins, it’s something that I never ever will forget ever.”
Now Celestia is hoping that by sharing her son’s story, she can help prevent other moms from the same pain.
“I would hate for any other mother to go through what I’m going through and any other children to go through,” she said.
“There’s nothing that can take the pain away but if it can save one child one parent one family … then it will make more sense.”
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