The Anniversary Party

During much of the last portion of the party almost all the characters show evidence of intoxication with ecstasy. Several characters encourage each other to drink plenty of water to avoid harm from the drug. While intoxicated one character, for obscure reasons, almost succeeds in killing himself by drowning in the swimming pool. After his rescue and resuscitation he berates himself for failing and appears to prepare to try again. A telephone call from the father of one of the characters announces that the character's sister (?) has died of an overdose, also apparently a suicide. Brief conversations about sobriety, drugs and recovery, and about how suicide is no longer an option after you have children.

ecstasy | intoxication | psychostimulant intoxication | suicide