He enjoyed watching the bouncing line of his heart monitor, hearing the steady beep-beep-beep tracking the muscle that pumped his blood, and then he noticed it slowing... slowing... slowing... until the line wasn't moving anymore and the beeps were a steady monotone. He looked toward the nurses's station; no one was coming to help him.
Teenaged X-Files obsession + Bermuda Triangle episode + Self-led school research project = Atheist.