Wasn't there an early reports in french media about cause for death to be Autoerotic Asphyxiation? And this brings the question, why are we, as a society, so a

Wasn't there an early reports in french media about cause for death to be Autoerotic Asphyxiation? And this brings the question, why are we, as a society, so ashamed of something like this and prefer to cover it up as mental illness (suicide) and blame ex girlfriends, etc...