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“The light in that room was a glow; I seem to remember the color green, or perhaps flowers. A pale green sheet covered his inert body but not his head, which lay (eyes closed, mouth set in a tense and terrible grimace) unmoving. Gianluca. Barely able to see, barely able to stand - my knees kept buckling – and breathing so quietly I thought that I, too, might die; that out of shock, I would just drift away, the shell of my body cracking open. No longer anchored by my brother’s love, I would be reabsorbed by sky. Gianluca. If there was never another sound in the world, I would understand – yes, that would be appropriate, it would be fitting. This was the antithesis of music, the antithesis of noise. My brother’s death seemed to demand silence of all the world. Gianluca.”

Loss Grief Despair Depression Heartbreak Suicide Mourning Bereavement Identification Morgue Asphyxiation Sibling Loss Viewing Gassing Helium Suicide

Book:The Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide

Source: The Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide

“When I worked at the W. M. Keck Observatory on the 13,796 feet very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea, we would routinely be engulfed in cold clouds of helium and nitrogen gas as we discharged it into the video camera systems daily. The management team never warned us that we were in a hazardous oxygen deprived environment during this activity that was known for its ability to adversely affect physical and mental health, and possibly bring on death by asphyxiation.”

“I saw four police officers willfully failing to maintain George Floyd’s airway.”

Failing Police Officers George Floyd Maintain Suffocation Willfully Asphyxiation Airway

Author:Steven Magee

“Dying from COVID-19 asphyxiation will take you on a journey through forgetfulness, confusion, hallucinations and visions as you ascend into Heaven.”

Heaven Journey Dying Confusion Covid 19 Forgetfulness Visions Hallucinations Ascend Asphyxiation

Author:Steven Magee

“I have my own way to walk and for some reason or other Zen is right in the middle of it wherever I go. So there it is, with all its beautiful purposelessness, and it has become very familiar to me though I do not know "what it is." Or even if it is an "it." Not to be foolish and multiply words, I'll say simply that it seems to me that Zen is the very atmosphere of the Gospels, and the Gospels are bursting with it. It is the proper climate for any monk, no matter what kind of monk he may be. If I could not breathe Zen I would probably die of spiritual asphyxiation.”

Source: Encounter: Thomas Merton & D.T. Suzuki

“The source of sexual power is curiosity, passion. You are watching its little flame die of asphyxiation.”

Littles Dies Passion Source Curiosity Flames Asphyxiation

Book:DELTA OF VENUS EROTICA

Source: DELTA OF VENUS EROTICA

“The band name came about when the original vocalist died when a huge radio fell on his head. He trotted about for a while dancing with the radio on his head, before he died of asphyxiation and blood loss. *Laughs* it was hilarious”

Names Loss Laughing Blood Huge Band Died Originals Dancing Radio Vocalist Asphyxiation

Author:Thom Yorke

“Fear is an acid which is pumped into one's atmosphere. It causes mental, moral and spiritual asphyxiation, and sometimes death; death to energy and all growth.”

Sometimes Spiritual Energy Causes Fear Growth Moral Atmosphere Acid Asphyxiation

Author:Horace Fletcher

“I don't see [the jungle] so much erotic. I see it more full of obscenity. It's just - Nature here is vile and base. I wouldn't see anything erotical here. I would see fornication and asphyxiation and choking and fighting for survival and growing and just rotting away. Of course, there's a lot of misery. But it is the same misery that is all around us. The trees here are in misery, and the birds are in misery. I don't think they sing. They just screech in pain.”

Thinking Pain Fighting Courses Growing Tree Survival Bird Misery Jungle Erotic Choke Rotting Obscenity Asphyxiation

Author:Werner Herzog

“The source of sexual power is curiosity, passion. You are watching its little flame die of asphyxiation. Sex does not thrive on monotony. Without feeling, inventions, moods, no surprises in bed. Sex must be mixed with tears, laughter, words, promises, scenes, jealousy, envy, all of the spices of fear, foreign travel, new faces, novels, stories, dreams, fantasies, music, dancing, opium, wine.”