Alcohol related deaths
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Alcohol related deaths
It's weird that I forgot this.
My uncle was an alcoholic and froze to death outside passed out drunk.
The same thing happened to a girl I went to school with, she got locked out of her house after going to the bar, she sat outside and passed out and died :-(. ( not an alcoholic)
Must be that both incidents were so long ago that made me forget.
Really horrible and scary
My uncle was an alcoholic and froze to death outside passed out drunk.
The same thing happened to a girl I went to school with, she got locked out of her house after going to the bar, she sat outside and passed out and died :-(. ( not an alcoholic)
Must be that both incidents were so long ago that made me forget.
Really horrible and scary
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Sorry to hear about your uncle, my sympathies.
Last year around this time a 19 year-old girl from Duluth Minnesota got very drunk at a college party and ended up passing out outside on a porch. She was lucky to survive but had both feet and both hands amputated. There's a lot on google about her. While she is bravely looking ahead, others should not forget to look behind at her story and remember this didn't have to happen.
Last year around this time a 19 year-old girl from Duluth Minnesota got very drunk at a college party and ended up passing out outside on a porch. She was lucky to survive but had both feet and both hands amputated. There's a lot on google about her. While she is bravely looking ahead, others should not forget to look behind at her story and remember this didn't have to happen.
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My sister died in an alcohol related car crash 20 years ago. A friend passed out with a lit cigarette and burned to death in his home. An acquaintance fell and hit his head while drunk and alone. They found him bled out sitting in his chair.
Sometimes I think about how close I've come to death so many times while drunk and wonder why I am still here. Here with barely a scratch other than the mental scars.
Sometimes I think about how close I've come to death so many times while drunk and wonder why I am still here. Here with barely a scratch other than the mental scars.
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I'm sorry to hear about your uncle Jsbodhi. SoberLeigh put it best, that we put ourselves in harm's way every time we drink.
For me one of the most harrowing realisations of the effect of alcohol (beyond my personal experiences) is driving through my home country of Poland. Many roads are in a sorry state of affair. Things have improved in recent years, but most roads between villages and towns still have countless religious shrines and flowers set out on the side in memory of those that were killed in car accidents. Most Poles have a family member or are a friend of someone who had a family member that was killed this way. Alcohol is very accessible and cheap, and most of these deaths were alcohol related. It's very sad indeed.
For me one of the most harrowing realisations of the effect of alcohol (beyond my personal experiences) is driving through my home country of Poland. Many roads are in a sorry state of affair. Things have improved in recent years, but most roads between villages and towns still have countless religious shrines and flowers set out on the side in memory of those that were killed in car accidents. Most Poles have a family member or are a friend of someone who had a family member that was killed this way. Alcohol is very accessible and cheap, and most of these deaths were alcohol related. It's very sad indeed.
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Yes, this is a big problem in cold northern climates. I've heard that there are drunk patrols in some Russian cities that pick up passed out people off of the streets on cold nights before they freeze to death.
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Originally Posted by Sebastian84 
I'm sorry to hear about your uncle Jsbodhi. SoberLeigh put it best, that we put ourselves in harm's way every time we drink.
For me one of the most harrowing realisations of the effect of alcohol (beyond my personal experiences) is driving through my home country of Poland. Many roads are in a sorry state of affair. Things have improved in recent years, but most roads between villages and towns still have countless religious shrines and flowers set out on the side in memory of those that were killed in car accidents. Most Poles have a family member or are a friend of someone who had a family member that was killed this way. Alcohol is very accessible and cheap, and most of these deaths were alcohol related. It's very sad indeed.
For me one of the most harrowing realisations of the effect of alcohol (beyond my personal experiences) is driving through my home country of Poland. Many roads are in a sorry state of affair. Things have improved in recent years, but most roads between villages and towns still have countless religious shrines and flowers set out on the side in memory of those that were killed in car accidents. Most Poles have a family member or are a friend of someone who had a family member that was killed this way. Alcohol is very accessible and cheap, and most of these deaths were alcohol related. It's very sad indeed.
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Best friend in high school wrestling drunk accidently snapped his neck
Mom - high blood pressure aneurism stroke due to booze and cigs
Five high school peers in car accidents
Girl at keggar fell off foot bridge cracked her head
Another best friend drank himself to death age 52
And more...
Depressing...
Mom - high blood pressure aneurism stroke due to booze and cigs
Five high school peers in car accidents
Girl at keggar fell off foot bridge cracked her head
Another best friend drank himself to death age 52
And more...
Depressing...
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A girl in my graduating class fell into the wharf walking home from a bar downtown and was found the next day.
Same graduating class we had three suicides by people struggling with drug and alcohol addiction. Two were in a relationship and entered into a drunken suicide pact and overdosed together, the third was our star quarterback who became addicted to heroin and shot himself in the head in the woods behind the high school.
One girl I know almost met a similar fate as mentioned above after passing out drunk in her way home from the bar. After a hospital stay, she's now alive, thriving, and sober.
Same graduating class we had three suicides by people struggling with drug and alcohol addiction. Two were in a relationship and entered into a drunken suicide pact and overdosed together, the third was our star quarterback who became addicted to heroin and shot himself in the head in the woods behind the high school.
One girl I know almost met a similar fate as mentioned above after passing out drunk in her way home from the bar. After a hospital stay, she's now alive, thriving, and sober.
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Years ago former presidential candidate George McGovern's daughter Terry froze to death after passing out on a heap of snow in the dead of winter. Alcohol deaths are not immune to the rich and privileged.
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I'm very lucky to be alive. I caused an accident while driving drunk that somehow barely injured me or the other driver. Looking at the wreckage it seems a miracle.
I've no idea why I survived and others die. It's not fair at all. To be honest I've never really came to terms with it but I have to accept it. We all could have died from drinking but we don't make these decisions. I don't know if God, the universe or just plain luck does but man, we have to do our best to live our lives fully. If for no other reason than out of respect for those who weren't as fortunate.
I've no idea why I survived and others die. It's not fair at all. To be honest I've never really came to terms with it but I have to accept it. We all could have died from drinking but we don't make these decisions. I don't know if God, the universe or just plain luck does but man, we have to do our best to live our lives fully. If for no other reason than out of respect for those who weren't as fortunate.
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hey TroubledJoe - a Dark Tower fan?
i should have been dead any number of times. i like what you said about living fully to respect those who didn't make it.
if i drink again i will die. probably at my own hand. that's why it's off the table for me. sitting here with my daughter watching TV and just hanging out - i only get to do this once a week now as she went to live with her dad over my drinking. i'm 10 months sober tomorrow. if i drink it's all gone.
thanks for the reminder that each day now is a gift.
i should have been dead any number of times. i like what you said about living fully to respect those who didn't make it.
if i drink again i will die. probably at my own hand. that's why it's off the table for me. sitting here with my daughter watching TV and just hanging out - i only get to do this once a week now as she went to live with her dad over my drinking. i'm 10 months sober tomorrow. if i drink it's all gone.
thanks for the reminder that each day now is a gift.
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Yes it’s so unfortunate that a few hundred THOUSAND alcohol related deaths are a fact each year. Never mind those not reported as alcohol related.
Alcohol deaths are about the worst to go through as the systems close down painfully or choking to death on your own vomit while passed out.
Perhaps worse is being alive and in a miserable life due to alcohol abuse.
And the interesting thing is a saying : you can’t scare an alcoholic into sobriety.
BE WELL
Alcohol deaths are about the worst to go through as the systems close down painfully or choking to death on your own vomit while passed out.
Perhaps worse is being alive and in a miserable life due to alcohol abuse.
And the interesting thing is a saying : you can’t scare an alcoholic into sobriety.
BE WELL
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Feb. 1990 on my way home from a club
at 2am, ran into some road construction
less than 2miles from my home, hitting
a 2 ft notch cut out in the road forcing
my car to run off the road hitting a concrete
culvert sitting on top the ground.
EMS cut me out of the wreckage taking
me to the hospital where I spent 10 days
with them removing my punctured spleen
so I wouldn't bleed to death along with
numerous broken ribs, contusions, broken
bones.
Did that stop me from returning to the
drink. Well, I thought I had learned my
lesson, but, come August 1990, I was
right back at the same club, coming
home same time, but this time after
an argument, on my own dare, I would
want to end my miserable life.
Downed a hand full of Nuprin and
some left over pain pills from my
accident with the remaining alcohol
and off to bed I went never thinking
of the consequences that would follow
that stunt or what would happen to
my little family if I did die.
Family intervened on me the next day
and off to a rehab hospital I went in
the back of a police car.
From there I spent 28 day completing
that rehab program and have remained
sober for the past 24 yrs, following and
living that program of recovery taught
to me.
It wasn't my time to go because my HP
wasn't through with me yet. I still have
work to on Earth by sharing my own ESH
experiences, strengths and hopes of what
my life was and is like before during and
after alcohol to those still struggling with
addiction.
I am responsible, healthy, happy and
most of all honest in all areas of my life
today. For that I an grateful and blessed.
Today, I can still enjoy the gifts of the
Promises granted to us as long as I
continue to live within recovery and
helping others in life and recovery.
That's my story and im sticking to it
and Passing It On.
at 2am, ran into some road construction
less than 2miles from my home, hitting
a 2 ft notch cut out in the road forcing
my car to run off the road hitting a concrete
culvert sitting on top the ground.
EMS cut me out of the wreckage taking
me to the hospital where I spent 10 days
with them removing my punctured spleen
so I wouldn't bleed to death along with
numerous broken ribs, contusions, broken
bones.
Did that stop me from returning to the
drink. Well, I thought I had learned my
lesson, but, come August 1990, I was
right back at the same club, coming
home same time, but this time after
an argument, on my own dare, I would
want to end my miserable life.
Downed a hand full of Nuprin and
some left over pain pills from my
accident with the remaining alcohol
and off to bed I went never thinking
of the consequences that would follow
that stunt or what would happen to
my little family if I did die.
Family intervened on me the next day
and off to a rehab hospital I went in
the back of a police car.
From there I spent 28 day completing
that rehab program and have remained
sober for the past 24 yrs, following and
living that program of recovery taught
to me.
It wasn't my time to go because my HP
wasn't through with me yet. I still have
work to on Earth by sharing my own ESH
experiences, strengths and hopes of what
my life was and is like before during and
after alcohol to those still struggling with
addiction.
I am responsible, healthy, happy and
most of all honest in all areas of my life
today. For that I an grateful and blessed.
Today, I can still enjoy the gifts of the
Promises granted to us as long as I
continue to live within recovery and
helping others in life and recovery.
That's my story and im sticking to it
and Passing It On.
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Originally Posted by IOAA2
And the interesting thing is a saying : you can’t scare an alcoholic into sobriety.
BE WELL
BE WELL
Many alcohol related deaths i am aware of.. suicide (many different forms) also should be counted as alcohol/drug related (many times)
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