re: Do you know anyone who drank themselves to death?

Yes, my uncle.

He had his demons and they were aplenty. Dude had it made - was married to a successful dentist, had a kid, but she got tired of him staying at home getting fricked up all day.

He was living with my grandparents after he had a hip replacement, moved out when he recovered and they found him dead in his shithole apartment in New Orleans having drank himself to death.

"Tangerine" by Led Zeppelin was playing on his stereo on repeat, so if anyone is familiar with the lyrics of that song I think he was literally drowning his sorrows thinking of what he had lost.