All three of them took the drug, and two of them died. There is no doubt that BJ and PP paid the ultimate price for their individual choices to:

1. request the heroin,

2. pay for the heroin,

3. determine how much of the heroin to ingest, and

4. Determine the method of ingestion to use, i.e. injection, swallow pill or snorting.

It makes no sense to say that because Vinnie did not pay the ultimate price of death, he should be punished for the rest of his life because his friends were not as lucky.