Before Brian died I never thought I would be interested in autoerotic asphyxiation. One single scene in Six Feet Under, where a man died in the act, was enough to scare me straight. Maybe not straight, but it was enough to keep me away from choking my neck while I choked the chicken. Once the only man who could ever love me passed, the little death of an orgasm lost most of the appeal. Spraying my chest with a hot load, emptying my balls, only highlighted how empty I felt in a world without him. The risk that pushed me away from this activity in the past was what drew me to it now. Maybe increasing the taste of death within orgasm will make me feel closer to him. I was so desperate to feel close to him again.
First, I had to consider my methods. Nothing in this cheap ass apartment seemed strong enough to be able to hold my weight and I thought it would be a bit embarrassing if I recreated the Six Feet Under scene too perfectly. I could just hear a smarmy cop making some comment about, "Why didn't anyone tell this pervert to not try that at home?" If I was going to die, so be it, but I refuse to have a death that prompts Dad Cop quips. I looked around the house for how I would do this and found a plastic bag full of other plastic bags. I never really used these for much before but maybe there was a part of me that knew I would do this one day after my city banned plastic bags. I dug through the ratty plastic shopping bags before realizing the best bag of all was the bag holding all the others, nice and thick to keep the air out.
I grabbed the bag and a shoelace as I headed into my bedroom. I took off my shirt and pants, leaving my boxer briefs because I liked the way they felt on my hard cock. I tied the bag around my head before reaching over for my phone to pull up some porn. It didn't take me long to realize that this method was not really conducive to watching anything. I untied the shoelace and pulled up a video of Brian and I fucking near the beginning of the relationship. If all I could do was listen to the moans someone else getting fucked then I felt like there was no other choice but to listen to him.
I tied the shoelace back around my throat and started to listen to his moans through the plastic bag. I closed my eyes and tried to imagine the scene that I've watched so many times. I could hear my lips wrap around Brian's cock and his soft moaning. I touched myself over my boxer briefs, feeling my cock stiffen as I could hear Brian's moans get louder.
The bag around my face started to feel more and more enclosed and I took that as a sign to hurry up my activities. I didn't really feel afraid of death at the moment, but that didn't mean that I wanted to die. What I wanted was to be able to imagine a future without this man who was kind and brilliant in a way that made this cruel world feel just a little bit tolerable. Maybe one day this would be a weird story of a kind of fucked up thing I did while stuck in the pits of such a heavy loss. I wanted a story that would make my therapist go "hmmmm" rather than make an obituary writer use some sort of euphemism to describe the nature of my death to my community.
I pulled my pants down and started to stroke myself. I tried to time my strokes with his moans, doing everything I could to take me back to the night of the video. I imagine myself fucking him in the ass and looking out at the beautiful view of the beach through our hotel window. As I furiously rubbed my member I could feel my breath becoming more and more desperate. I continued to masturbate as I started to feel my brain demand more oxygen until everything felt like a blur.
I felt lost in a void until I heard a voice fill the room, "Take that fucking bag off your pretty face, you dramatic bitch."
I couldn't grasp what was happening but I listened to the comforting voice and took the bag off my head. As oxygen returned to my body I struggled to make sense of the being in front of me. Looking at him straight on was like looking at the old him in my peripheral vision when he was alive. This was Brian, or maybe some sort of echo of him, the mark that he wasn't ready to leave this world, to leave me.
"Fuck," I moaned, not in a fun way time, "Does this mean I had a fucking death that all the Dark Humor Dads will be quipping about?"
The echo of my lover responded, "No, thank God. No, wait. Fuck God, I did that. You got close enough that you started to enter this layer of existence but I was able to wake you. I was trying to enjoy the show but then it started to feel like one of those shows that was planned to be five seasons but we only got one. I want to see the whole story, dammit, you think just because I'm gone you can throw your life away?"
I paused, taking all of this information in. I started to cry and pushed my words out, "This wasn't supposed to happen. You were supposed to be here and now you're not. I don't know how to imagine the future without you. When I try I don't imagine the worst scenario anymore, instead it's just nothing. I just don't know what it looks like at all and that is so scary. I am so afraid of a world that I cannot predict."
"I know honey, but your life has so much value beyond our relationship. I know this is a hard time and your brain is stuck in the old patterns but I need you to hold on. I want this to be a weird thing you did in desperation. If you die, I die again. I want you to live because I feel sorry for the world that would have to live without you but also for these selfish reasons. You are still here and I can continue to live through you. The stories you tell about me, the habits of mine that squirreled their way into your own, and the pics you share from our active alcoholism days. And like come on, you deserve a better death than that fucking dickhead kid from that Robin Williams movie."