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

Brother, age 28, died 2008. Withdrawal from a bottle/day vodka habit. He was in really really poor shape then tried to quit cold turkey and his body couldn't take the withdrawal.

Former friend/coworker/bandmate, became an alkie when the Atkins diet came out and he would only drink liquor. That's when it started to spiral. I lost touch with him over the years but still have mutual friends. About a month ago he died in the hospital from liver failure. His wife had long since divorced him. He went from being the president of a local company with his face on ATL billboards with Domonique Wilkins to being a drunk wretch dying in a hospital.