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“No one plans the bad stuff, Jordan. But it’s out there waiting for us.”
Cigarettes elevated the dopamine levels in the brain, which calmed the nerves. Jordan knew some addicts and people with mental illness smoked regularly as a form of self-medication.
“Suffocation is slow and induces a great deal of fear. The air in this room is about twenty-one percent oxygen. We both would experience impairment if it dropped to ten to fifteen percent, and then we’d feel panic. Death occurs at eight percent. Were either of the women strangled?”
“Sometimes you have to surrender, Jordan. Sometimes patience is all that works.”
“I’m the proverbial duck. Floating on top, paddling like mad under the surface.”
She had learned many suicide victims felt a sense of peace and happiness just knowing their life was going to end soon.
