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"In crisis, whenever he felt cornered or impotent, Charlie's instinct had always been to subvert those feelings with the threat of death. But in truth, he wasn't particularly interested in being dead, not personally. His nursing career resolved that paradox. Access to the vulnerable allowed him to manifest death without dying. He'd learned to kill himself by proxy."