Embarrassing demise: (9-15-2004)
Going against the grain of recent court decisions, the federal
appeals court in New York ruled in August, 2-1, that when a man
died of ''autoerotic asphyxiation'' (normally, strangling oneself
almost to the point of passing out as a way of enhancing pleasure
during masturbation, but in some cases, going too far), it was an
''accident'' rather than a self-inflicted injury. Thus, mom Shirley
Critchlow is entitled to death benefits under her son Michael's
life insurance policy (but would not have been for a self-inflicted
injury).
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