Hey guys, I opened a thread about this in Newcomers but thought I'd share here too.
A childhood friend of mine died yesterday at the age of 36 because of alcohol. He started having health problems last year and his doctor told him if he didn't quit drinking that he was going to die. He stayed clean for three months and decided to pick up the bottle again. He drank himself to death.
He was a great athlete, went to college on a baseball scholarship, received his masters degree in education and was a fifth grade teacher for the past 13 years. He leaves behind his wife, a 10 year old son and a two year old daughter. His 10 year old son wants to read a letter he wrote to his dad at the funeral.
This disease spares no one. So keep up the good fight...our lives and the lives of our loved ones depend on it.
Coop