Deadly Agreement

This is from the book I am working on.  It is about a mental health center, ITU(Intensive Treatment Unit) located in Midvale, Utah during the 1980's



While stting in the office at ITU, I noticed one of the residnets was reading the Bible.  She looked very nervous and drugged.  One of the staff members noticed and asked her if there was something wrong.  The girl, Carmen denied it and kept frantically reading the Bible.  She was mumbling about dying and heaven.  "Are you thinking about hurting yourself?" the worker inquired.  Carmen continued to mumble and made little sense.  When they dragged the information out of her they found out that she and another resident, Becky had decided to kill themselves together.  "Where's Becky?"the crisis worker demanded.  "Did you take some pills?" "Yes" Carmen admitted.  "Again they demanded, "Where's Becky?" "She's up in her room." Carmen confessed.  The crisis workers ran up the stairs to Becky's room.  They found Becky unconscious and called the paramedics.  Becky almost died that night.  The doctors had to open her chest to get her heart started.

I got to know Becky in later years.  I'm thankful that she was around so that I could know her.  She later married and had children who would not have been abole to enjoy her if  the doctors hadn't  revived her that night.

As for Carmen, "How would you like to carry that around.?"