A woman I known drank herself to death this year at age 52. It’s very sad. Her father was a hard-drinking German who came to this country as a teen after WW2. I suspect that she inherited her dad’s taste for booze, but she wasn’t as big and tough as him, with him making it to like 70 and her checking out at 52.
As a kid, I once asked my mother, “Why do some drunks die young? But others live to old age?” And she suggested a hypothesis that I’ve never seen in medical literature but has certainly proved predictive among people I’ve observed: “If the drunk eats well, they may be able to get away with it. If their diet is all booze and no food, it’ll kill them.”
“If the drunk eats well, they may be able to get away with it. If their diet is all booze and no food, it’ll kill them.”
This is entirely valid.
Same as my mom (German) except she was 53. My dad (Irish) died a week before her from the same thing. Cirrhosis.
This was back in '77.
absolutely true