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Abdurrahman was happy to be in Hell.
Islamic custom taught that if you committed suicide, you would relive
the method of your death eternally. If you shot yourself, you would
continually be shooting yourself for the rest of time. Abdurrahman had
indeed killed himself. But he had done so through overindulgence of
life's pleasurable sins. He drank until he couldn't stand, slept with
every girl that would take his money, and used every drug he could get
his hands on. He was a gluttonous eater, a late sleeper and an
unreliable worker. Abdurrahman came to the realization one morning,
after waking up penniless and hung over in a parking lot, that this
lifestyle was killing him. He was having too much fun to change
anything, though, so he continued his way of life knowing its
consequence. Abdurrahman died five years later, of a heart attack
brought on by a lifetime of fatty foods and no exercise. It was weighed
as a suicide, albeit through the most pleasurable method possible. That
same pleasurable way of life became Abdurrahman's "punishment." His
afterlife was not filled with the 72 virgins promised to the righteous,
but Abdurrahman always found less prudish women to be a lot more
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