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> vomiting, unable to sit up, slipping in and out of consciousness, had managed, somehow, to dial into a conference call. How would the writer know anything ab
by mysterypie 9y ago
> vomiting, unable to sit up, slipping in and out of consciousness, had managed, somehow, to dial into a conference call.
How would the writer know anything about how Peter was feeling when he dialed into the conference call? Maybe Peter was perfectly fine and lucid at that moment.
The events may be very sad, but that quote is made up, or call it "dramatic license" to be more generous.
- magic_beans 9y agoMedics probably got an accurate time of death, and one is able to extrapolate from that the time of his vomiting, which likely matched the time he made the call. Your comment is a little heartless.
- mysterypie 9y agoDo you think the medics were able to extrapolate that he was "unable to sit up" at that moment? That he was "slipping in and out of consciousness" at that moment? If the writer (the ex-wife) had evidence she would have said so because it would have made the story more compelling. She could have said, for example, that the other callers on the conference call could hear him vomiting. But she didn't. I don't have a problem with dramatic license or artistic license; historical books and movies are full of scenes that no one witnessed. But when the grandparent of this thread said, "Of all the heartbreaking details of his story, the one that continues to haunt me", he seemed to believe that it happened just like that. I wanted to point out that the writer is inventing a scene -- it is not literally true.
- simtel20 9y agoThe junkies I've seen tend to have really poor sitting up skills while using. Extrapolating from that to a junkie who is overdosing seems straightforward and highly probable.