Discussion Ctb by drinking

[KillingPain267]

Not acute poisoning but slowly by being drunk every waking moment. It's because I just finished watching the movie Leaving Las Vegas with Nicolas Cage. In it, Cage's character Ben lost everything and decides to move to Las Vegas. He meets a prostitute, and they get involved. You never see him eat anything and he is constantly drunk almost. He tells her that he plans to drink himself to death and says it takes 4 weeks. At the end of the movie he indeed dies, seemingly of organ failure and it is almost peaceful.

Is that realistic? I assume he had been drinking at least some months prior to those 4 weeks, because he is already addicted when he comes to Las Vegas. I find the whole idea totally unrealistic and painful and unrecommended and thus don't like the movie. Wouldn't it take much longer and be more painful the closer he gets to organ failure death?

 

[Timothy7dff]

Hollywood movies typically aren't very accurate. My grandfather drank heavily every day and lived into his 90s.

 

[Ctrl_Alt_DEL]

I love that movie one one my favorite for sure. Elisabeth shue and nicolas cage were awesome.
The real person that the movie was based on comitted suicide in the day the movie was released

Its a hollywood movie so its not something to be taken as a method. You will probabily fail and suffer hugely during the process.

 

[KillingPain267]

Hollywood movies typically aren't very accurate. My grandfather drank heavily every day and lived into his 90s.

My grandfather did too, but died a painful cancerous death in his 60s.

I love that movie one one my favorite for sure. Elisabeth shue and nicolas cage were awesome.
The real person that the movie was based on comitted suicide in the day the movie was released

Its a hollywood movie so its not something to be taken as a method. You will probabily fail and suffer hugely during the process.

Yes, the author drank too, but did ctb by gun.

 

[Jorms_McGander]

Jesus Christ no. Don't do that. Don't even come close to dying of alcoholism. It is a horrendous lifestyle, it is not fast. You've seen homeless people. That's where you die as an alcoholic.

--sincerely,

37 year old recovering. I'm recovering because I ran out of money. That's another thing. It's hard to support a habit this damaging to your health. Hard to accomplish. At my peak, it was a 66 of whiskey three days of the week and a 40 plus beer on the other four. I was hallucinating while sober. No idea if I had a seizure because living alone without supports. Probably not, but y'know.

I was even more insane than I am normally.

The lethal addiction is opiates/opioids. That's also gonna put you on the street in a jiffy though, if you're not talking about a straight up OD.

PS: some of my worst blood loss comes from the insanity of drinking but I kept calling for help because of the disinhibition. I had a lot of gambling with bloodloss and I ate enough bitter apricot kernels to die at one point, but every fucking time I called for help. So it wasn't even gonna work for me by driving additional suicide attempts because of the disinhibition and SI.

 

[KillingPain267]

Jesus Christ no. Don't do that. Don't even come close to dying of alcoholism. It is a horrendous lifestyle, it is not fast. You've seen homeless people. That's where you die as an alcoholic.

--sincerely,

37 year old recovering. I'm recovering because I ran out of money. That's another thing. It's hard to support a habit this damaging to your health. Hard to accomplish. At my peak, it was a 66 of whiskey three days of the week and a 40 plus beer on the other four. I was hallucinating while sober. No idea if I had a seizure because living alone without supports. Probably not, but y'know.

I was even more insane than I am normally.

The lethal addiction is opiates/opioids. That's also gonna put you on the street in a jiffy though, if you're not talking about a straight up OD.

Yeah I had no intention to. Common sense told me already that the movie is totally unrealistic, so I don't like it. I really hope nobody watches it and thinks it just takes 4 weeks.

 

[Jorms_McGander]

Yeah I had no intention to. Common sense told me already that the movie is totally unrealistic, so I don't like it. I really hope nobody watches it and thinks it just takes 4 weeks.

I think ten years of committed alcoholism is a reasonable timeframe. I have about 20 years of addiction and my peak was five years or so. It's hard to recall. It's a really, really hard lifestyle. Wake up. Slam five ounces of whiskey straight. Now I feel functional. Slam another five. Now I feel good. Proceed to make horrible decisions for the rest of day [drinking continues across any context I encounter including work]. Obliterate my consciousness to avoid shame of my decisions. Wake up somewhere. Shaking. Somebody is knocking on the door and I live in an attic suite with no door to knock on. Slam five ounces of whiskey straight. Now I feel functional.

I mean, it gave me some good material if I get around to writing my book before I CTB. It was far, far more pain than relief. Parts of it were fun. There is a certain rockstar feel to being a completely-abandoned addict. Like, come at me lol I'm one foot in the grave and the other on the streets.

But I don't recommend it. I can't possibly. Yeah it felt cool to be drunk. Badass at times. But my god the cost!

 

[F@#$]

Lost a friend Friday to booze. Liver and kidney failure she was 46.

 

[Aprilfarewell4]

Acute alcohol poisoning kills people. Not the same thing though.

 

[botanist_dude]

Not acute poisoning but slowly by being drunk every waking moment. It's because I just finished watching the movie Leaving Las Vegas with Nicolas Cage. In it, Cage's character Ben lost everything and decides to move to Las Vegas. He meets a prostitute, and they get involved. You never see him eat anything and he is constantly drunk almost. He tells her that he plans to drink himself to death and says it takes 4 weeks. At the end of the movie he indeed dies, seemingly of organ failure and it is almost peaceful.

Is that realistic? I assume he had been drinking at least some months prior to those 4 weeks, because he is already addicted when he comes to Las Vegas. I find the whole idea totally unrealistic and painful and unrecommended and thus don't like the movie. Wouldn't it take much longer and be more painful the closer he gets to organ failure death?

Here in Mexico, a guy once died of alcohol poisoning because he drank 45 tequila shots in like 5 minutes or less. It was messy, yeah, but "peaceful". I mean that, he didn't feel pain. He just started to walk aimlessly and fell down. A few hours later he was dead. He never woke up or vomited or anything, his brain just "turned off". So I think it is possible to die "peacefully" from alcohol poisoning, it has to be done very VERY quickly, and well, a bit of luck. Delirium tremens is the final stage of alcohol addiction and it is NOT pretty

 

[DukeDestroyer]

Yikes ctb because of alcohol is just insane to me. My grandfather died in his 60's due alcohol related causes. I've alcoholism on both sides of my family. So I never even touch the stuff

 

[locked*n*loaded]

Ok, here's a true story. I had a cousin who had Crohn's disease since her late 20's. It's a progressive disease that slowly eats your bowel away, requiring many surgeries over years as it does. Causes a lot of pain, too, and many people, including my cousin, often resort to drugs, oftentimes illicit, in order to manage the pain. Of course one can, and does, become addicted over decades of drug use, and the user finds that they need more and more in order to gain the same level of pain control as time goes on.

Fast forward a few decades from when my cousin first got the disease. She was in end stage Crohn's and had lost all her bowels and utilized a "bag" for defacation. She ended up getting in some legal trouble and, as part of her sentence, she was required to undergo weekly drug testing. If she had an unclean drug test, she would have to do time in jail, or prison.

Anyway, she needed to find another way to control her pain, so she turned to alcohol. Hard alcohol.

She had always been a non-drinker her entire life. She ended up drinking so much that she destroyed her liver, which is ultimately what ended her life. My point here is that it took 2 years for her to destroy her liver. It wasn't overnight. The other thing I will say is that it is probable that she already had some amount of liver damage due to all her heavy drug use for 3 decades. So, without that damage, it is conceivable that it might have taken even longer for the alcohol to destroy her liver. She passed at 59 years old.

 

[DeadKennedy]

not a drinker, but i've seen one of my family members drink long term and they had severe vitamin B deficiency which could have led to paralysis if not treated in time. i dont have details but he had difficulty with muscle control for months while recovering. he's mostly recovered now but the risk of severe irreversible nerve damage when using long term without eating is possible, and if someone attempts to save you at that point youre pretty screwed

 

[unabletocope]

Seems like the recurring theme here is 'don't do it it's a slow and painful death' and I'd go along with that theme

 

[crystal_meth97]

No. Just no. Becoming a habitual drinker can easily turn into full-blown alcoholism and it's only going to make your life miserable, it's not a quick death. In fact, it may take decades for excessive drinking to kill you and it's most likely going to be an excruciating death when the time comes. I'm a recovering alcoholic and I won't encourage anyone to go down that road, it's only going to amplify your misery.