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Honolulu, Hawai
May 27, 1977
David Mark Chapman had come to Hawai for one purpose- to kill himself. He attached a plastic hose to the exhaust of his car, put the other end in the car, rolled the windows up, and turned the car on. As the car filled up with the deadly gas, the 22 year old Chapman began singing his favorite song, Imagine, by John Lennon, his hero. Before he finished the second verse, he had gone unconscious. Five minutes later the hose would melt and the carbon monoxide would stop entering the car. It was too late for Chapman. If he had just sat in the car, breathing normally, he would have woken up and survived the attempt. But his singing and the deep breaths between phrases, had filled his lungs with carbon monoxide instead of oxygen. He never woke up.
New York City, New York
May 28, 1977
In New York City John Lennon woke up suddenly in the middle of the night and sat up in bed screaming from night terrors. His wife, Yoko Ono, tried to comfort him. She asked him what was wrong. He said, "A ghost grabbed my soul." She got him relaxed and he went back to sleep. The next morning he didn't recall the night terrors at all.