Originally Posted by
waynetheking 
I think we as alcoholics are committing slow suicide. .
This statement was something I told myself so many times during my last years of drinking. I am not very religious but I do believe suicide is a sin and if you are doing something that you know is killing you, isn't that a sin?
Originally Posted by
waynetheking For me it didn't start out that way. But as it became increasingly worse I just didn't care anymore.
I can also identify with this statement. My health was really suffering the last several years of my drinking but if was as if I didn't care. I told myself I had to die from something and being a drinker was my identity so I can't stop.
I went as far as saying that I was meant to drink - do to the fact I met my wife in a bar. So if I didn't drink I would not have been in that bar and my daughter would never have been born - and everything happens for a reason.
An alcoholic always searches for justification to keep drinking.