A TEENAGE boy collapsed on his living room floor and died after complaining of a headache.
Makhi Jackson, 16, made himself a snack of New Year's Eve then passed out a short time later.
He was rushed to A&E but doctors couldn't save him.
They fear he suffered a brain aneurysm - a bulge in a blood vessel caused by a weakness in the blood vessel wall.
"This has shaken my family and kids to our very core," his mum Matika said on a GoFundMe page.
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"I never thought I would have to bury my son, especially not so young.
"I am lost. I'm trying to remain positive but this is hard."
Makhi, from Atlanta, Georgia, US, was at home on December 31, 2023, when he cooked something to eat.
He told his mum he had a headache, but it was otherwise "just a normal day".
Minutes later, Matika heard a bang and discovered her son had fallen into the glass table in their living room.
"He just collapsed," she told 11Alive.
"He was bleeding from the mouth, and he was making this sound that I will never get out of my mind. It was almost like growling."
Matika called 911 and immediately started CPR before he was taken to A&E by ambulance.
Sadly, he was pronounced dead a short time later.
His official death has not been confirmed, but medics suspect it was a brain aneurysm.
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The keen drummer, who was "healthy and active", has been remembered as a "smart and happy kid".
It's difficult to estimate exactly how much people are affected by brain aneurysms as they usually cause no symptoms and pass undetected unless they rupture, or burst.
Some experts believe it could be as high as one in 20 people, while others think the figure stands at around one in 100.
Rupturing leads to an extremely dangerous condition known as a subarachnoid haemorrhage, according to the NHS.
This is where bleeding causes extensive brain damage and symptoms such as a headache, stiff neck, sickness and vomiting, and pain when looking at light.
A ruptured brain aneurysm is a medical emergency.
