No Friends of Bill Wilson

National Review Online ^ | 5/17/2004 | Radley Balko

[bassmaner]

Cheever says she was "shocked and horrified" that Wilson would want whiskey on his deathbed

I'm "shocked and horrified" at your lack of compassion for a dying man.

Just like I'm "shocked and horrified" over the continuing "war" being waged on Americans by their government for the sake of a failed social experiment.

[bassmaner]

WOD bump

[Mears]

Good Lord! I know lots of sober alcoholics who might ask for a drink while on their deathbed.

So what?

[dead]

asked his caretakers for three shots of whiskey. Over his last days, he asked three more times for a drink. He was never given one.

Jerks.

[neither-nor]

Man on his death bed wants three shots of whiskey, I say give the man three shots of whiskey. Sometimes, do- gooders like Cheever frighten me with their righteousness.

[prion]

Though, as my mother said on hers, by the time you really, really need it, you aren't in a position to hold it down.

[sauropod]

"The same mindset that finds a symbolic victory over alcoholism more important than a deathbed drink for a sick man can see fit to justify a 25-year prison term for an oxycodone-using MS sufferer and handcuffing an elderly post-polio marijuana user to her bed at the point of a gun."

Ah yes. The full throated roar of the Therapeutic State.

[dmeara]

Bill Wilson also experimented with LSD many years after he began a successful recovery from alcoholism. He was instrumental in saving the lives of millions so I think no less of him for this, nor for wanting a few shots on his deathbed. It should not have been denied him.

[Semper Paratus]

Maybe Bill wanted to live long enough to 'earn' a 24 hour chip.

[T Minus Four]

Good grief, the poor man! He'd probably been taking it "one day at a time" for a gazillion days. He didn't have another day left, so why not give him some dying comfort?!?

[TexasTransplant]

Cheever

Posterchild & Hero of the Do-Gooders and Nanny Cops

Saving us from ourselves is not just a Job, it is a calling.

Geeeeeez

[kanawa]

Unable to find a doctor after moving to Florida

What's up with this?

[TexasTransplant]

"The same mindset that finds a symbolic victory over alcoholism more important than a deathbed drink for a sick man can see fit to justify a 25-year prison term for an oxycodone-using MS sufferer and handcuffing an elderly post-polio marijuana user to her bed at the point of a gun."

 

One guess and one guess only,  Why do we need to get the Guns out of the hands of every day Citizens?

[Hillwoman]

The LSD "use" was during a controlled experiment that he was asked to do by medical researchers attempting to duplicate his "white light" spiritual experience that initiated his sobriety. You don't hear that much because not a lot of researchers want to get close to proving God.

[dakine]

hahaha..that's funny!

[Know your rights]

Saving us from ourselves is not just a Job, it is a calling.

Like the government is doing such a great job saving us from real criminals.

[nothingnew]

Ol' Gus and Woodrow new how to handle deathbed drinks.

FMCDH

[Graybeard58]

Good Lord! I know lots of sober alcoholics who might ask for a drink while on their deathbed.

I've been "one day at a timing it" for 22 years and alcohol is not what I would request. I quit smoking three months ago and I would want to fire one up one last time. No doubt the smoke nazis wouldn't allow that either.

[cryptical]

I quit smoking three months ago and I would want to fire one up one last time.

I quit smoking close to a year ago, and if my doctor told me tommorrow that I had a short time to live, the first place I'd stop is a store for a pack of cigarettes.