why do people drink themselves to death, Knowing full well what their doing?

Answer 1

I do not know how to answer this question but, my best friend from the seventh grade is doing the same thing. We are now forty-eight and forty-nine. She has hep C and starts at four in the morning with a water glass of vodka and just keeps going. Loses everything-job,friends,family,car, health, standing in community. I do believe that she is trying to kill herself. But, she is not taking me with her anymore. I am not going to be her victim any more.I have told her that I will go to her funeral, cry with a broken heart but, until that point she's on her own. This may seem cruel but after taking her to 7-8 rehabs, taking her in my house, providing rides, picking her up off the ground all the while she 's being completely mean, nasty and rude. I will not enable her any more. I am done. She owes me money, time and piece of mind. She told me the last time I spoke to her that she abuses me because I mean so much to her. Well, I'd rather not have that pleasure. Neither should you. Wow, I must have needed that. Thank you............

Answer 2

Alcoholism is a mental illness and an illness of denial.In an alcoholic once the first drink is taken it sets off a craving for another drink then another ad infinitum. There is also the peculiar mental obsession that an alcoholic tells himself-'This time I won't lose control. This time I will only have a few drinks'. But he/she cannot do that. He/she has lost the ability to control his/her drinking. Some pursue this obsession through the gates of insanity and death-unless they have a psychic change.

Answer 3

Two of my friends have done this and they were physically bigger than me, so I should've gone first. But I didn't want to die and they did.
Some people's lives are crap forever and alcohol numbs the pain.
They can become self-indulgent, depressed, self-destructive and ultimately lose all self-respect.
Alcoholism takes over their lives.

You could also ask why some smokers when told by their doctors that they will lose their legs due to thinning arteries, smoke themselves into a wheelchair.

Answer 4

People drink themselves to death because alcoholism is a disease just like aids or typhoid or anything else. Drinking is their life, their best friend. Nothing else matters. Unless you have the disease you have No idea how important drinking is to a drunk

Answer 5

They're doing. The apostrophe is put in as shown. I don't like being a p'dantic b'stard, but I am an honory principal officer of the A.A.A.A. (Association for the Abolition of the Abherrent Apostrophe)
Anyway, apart from all that, people do it because that is what they like doing.
Do people try to stop you doing what YOU like doing?
Have a happy new year!

Answer 6

simple solution..should water be banned.
ban the production of alcohol on the planet. ask the govenments to comply stop cars stop airoplanes stop.war
check out the truth man made water is bad
clean water in plastic bottles is a laugh.
and while you worry you get dead
called the passing of time try living while you am alive.

Answer 7

When I used to drink every day I actively wanted to shorten my life through alcoholism.

Answer 8

I don't think anyone just wakes up and thinks today I am going to become addicted to alcohol or drugs there must be a reason for them to do so

Answer 9

'Cos it's good at the time, and the best way to make a hangover feel good is to have another drink - Catch 22.

Answer 10

It can become a habit - they know what they're doing but maybe the self-destruct button has been pushed. Maybe it's deliberate.