Deadly
From "The
Perpetual Quest":
"Within a
dozen years, three of these five promising lawyers were dead from alcoholism,
struck down at the peak of their careers. The judge is still and always has been
a sober judge. And I somehow unwittingly, and even while drinking, turned into a
corporate counsel and later, thankfully, became a member of Alcoholics
Anonymous. The professor's kidneys gave out from one too many martinis; the
exporting lawyer kept drinking until he died, despite a liver transplant; my
ex-husband died in a fire on what was to be, he had said, his last drunk before
going to A.A. again, when I was ten years sober. I have been to too many
premature funerals due to our good friend alcohol."
2001 AAWS, Inc. Fourth Edition
Alcoholics Anonymous,
pg. 388-89