Death by study 
2003 Reader Submission
Pending Acceptance
July 18 2002
Bangko: A Bangkok university student was found dead after a
bizarre study method involving looping a belt around his neck and
fixing it to a door handle went tragically wrong, a report said today.
Eak Chongsawatwattana's mother told the Nation newspaper that
the belt kept him awake while he was studying.
He had learned the trick from other university students.
If he nodded off, the jerk of the belt would wake him up.
"I warned him many times not to do this, but he just didn't listen.
Now he's dead," she was quoted as saying.
Eak, 21, was reportedly found sitting upright at his desk with the
belt still around his neck.
His neck was bruised, but there were no other signs of injury.
Forensics expert Dr Pornthip Rojanasunant told the daily it was
likely Eak had died from a lack of oxygen to his brain.
Chavalit Muennuch, an executive at Assumption University where
Eak was a student, told the Nation that the administration was
looking into his death.
"I've never heard anything like this throughout my 28 years of work
in school administration. This student sounds like a masochist. He
tortured himself to succeed. This is not the proper way to
succeed," he said.
He vowed to stop other students using the deadly method.
Submitted on 07/17/2002
Submitted by:
Paul Woolnough
Reference:
Agence France-Presse 07/18/02
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