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<p>I wasn’t afraid of death.</p> <p>How could I be? I lived under death’s shadow every day. When you swallow eighty Vicodin, twenty sleeping pills, drink a bottle of vodka, and still survive, a certain sense of invulnerability stays with you. When you continually use drugs with the kind of reckless determination that I did, the limit to how much heroin or crack you can ingest is not defined in dollar amounts, but in the amounts your body can withstand without experiencing a seizure or respiratory failure. Yet at the end of every binge, every night of lining up six, seven, eight crack pipes and hitting them one after the other <i>bam! bam! bam!</i> every night of smoking and snorting bag after bag of heroin . . . after all of that, when you still <i>wake up</i> to see the same dirty sky over you as the night before, you start to think that instead of dying, maybe your punishment is to live---to be stuck in this purgatory of self-abuse and misery for an eternity. Sometimes you start to think that death would come as a blessed relief.</p> <p>Toward the end, I found myself contemplating death again. Only this time I wasn’t going to leave it to chance. I was going to buy a gun, load the

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Author

Jason Peter, Tony O'Neill

Publisher

St. Martin's Griffin

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780312561031

Category

health

Rating

4.4 / 5 (213 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14