Robie loses her life vest as she falls from the plane: “The falling lasted forever, my arms windmilling in the void. I wanted to stop moving. Stop the noise. Stop the wet. Stop the cold. Stop the blowing. Stop everything” (35). She wants to end the sensations, but at the same time she wants them to continue, because as long as she is miserable, she is alive.

Robie hits the surface of the oceanand gets a mouthful of seawater when she screams. She abandons her earlier hope for survival, praying, “God please kill me already. This is more than I can take” (37).

Robie sinks down below the surface of the water. She muses, “It was over. I was over. Dying was so much easier than I thought” (39).