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

My mother died of alcohol-induced cirrhosis almost a year ago. She was only 55. Looked absolutely terrible on her death bed. Really made me appreciate how much abuse the liver can withstand and how quickly everything can go to shite once the liver fails.

She'd been a relatively heavy drinker for many years, but over the last five years of her life she and her husband (my stepfather) would go on these huge binges, sometimes for a week or more, with multiple episodes of complete blackout drunkenness. It would not shock me if her husband suffers the same fate very soon.