Book introduction

Whether or not you believe in fate or predestiny, there is a certain order to life.

We are born in a place to which we have no input, except possibly the timing, and we die in locations either unexpected or dedicated to this function. There is very little in the planning stage or scope for individuality. There is a sense of structure in this normality.

For the people in this book, there was a break, a choice: an ultimatum borne from reasons of stricken finance or crumbling relationships, a life encapsulated in a written note and ended at points picked for purpose.
These places are the empty tombs for lives that were self designated for termination. No fate to run its course or decisions to work out over time, no planning except for the end. The only concern here is the way out.
Except this exit has a difference.
A full stop to one existence, a reboot into another. A place selected not only for the end but also for the post-life, the next identity, a whole new fabricated beginning.

These places hold secrets for a story, a full circle defined by choice. We are all expected to remain who we are from the cradle to the grave yet these spots on the landscape were the catalysts for lives that changed within moments. From one filled with dread and little hope, a dead end, to the next brimming with hopeful belief and aspirations not yet fulfilled.
The ones who were successful disappeared, reinvented and got another chance to start fresh against fate.

And then there are the others, the ones who failed...