I swim into life

Why did she do it? On July 3, 1998, 21-year-old Nicole Deck put the barrel of a gun to her right temple and pulled the trigger. If she had changed the angle of the shot by just a few degrees, she would today be just a statistic. Around 1,500 people take their own lives in Switzerland each year. 1,500 anonymous tragedies. And no one talks about it. Nicole Deck appeared on various TV shows to share her message with those who are weary of life: "Think carefully about what you do!" In this book, Nicole tells the shocking story of her young life. She recounts painful experiences as an abused and mistreated foster and group home child just as brutally as her sad youth surrounded by drugs and prostitution. And she describes the nightmare of her endless darkness. Nicole Deck wanted to extinguish her life. But she only hit the light. Anyone who reads her biography will understand why she did it.