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Section:. Videogames
By: Itzel Granados
3 DEATHS CAUSED BY VIDEOGAMES
MOBA Games, November 2019
I know you have probably ignored your parents after being told to “go outside and get some
sunlight” or “not to stare at a computer screen in a dark room”. Well this young gamer didn’t
take those warnings very seriously.
A seventeen year old boy, Piyawat Harikun, had a persistent obsession with video games
although he was a good kid at school and he had promised his parents to reduce his game
time on multiple occasions, but his desire to play was just too powerful Piyawat couldn’t
wait to draw together his curtains when he got back from school, and he would play for longer
and longer, participating in several gaming marathon sessions lasting for several nights.
However, one day when his parents came up to check on him, but he did not respond. After
entering, he was found collapsed at the bottom of his desk that was still littered with piles of
take-away pizza boxes and multiple fizzy drink bottles. It was later discovered that he had
died of a stroke caused by his prolonged computer sessions
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