<p>yea well remind yourself of that when you put your friend to bed instead of calling 911......sleep well my friend. Drunks make poor decision makers. Are you absolving his friends because they too may have been drunk???</p>
<p>Dude this whole situation is crazy.</p>
<p>the only crazy part of it is the ignorance regarding the appropriate action to take when friends over drink..............call 911. Get intervention from a non drunk to call if necessary. Don't put your friends to bed drunk......ever.</p>
<p>(Assuming that we're talking about alcohol poisoning) How about the ignorance of drinking so much that you die of alcohol poisoning? I wouldn't leave a friend to die the way his may have but the fact of the matter is that before his friends are responsible for calling 911, Matthew himself, or any other person for that matter, is responsible for regulating his own behavior.</p>
<p>like depressed people who attempt suicide are? What is your point?</p>
<p>It's easy to blame the drinker, but when I'm trashed, drinking more and more seems like a grand idea.</p>
<p>exactly..........seems like a grand idea. Does anyone know if he had a roommate? Girlfriend? This is just so tragic.</p>
<p>NOTE FROM COLLEGEMOM: took out link to his obituary and guestbook....not using real name on the forums, thanks</p>
<p>A Binghamton freshman died of alcohol poisoning over spring break too -- he was at home apparently with friends from high school -- </p>
<p>Why do college students think that getting drunk to the point of unconsciousness and endangerment initiates them into some kind of rite of manhood? It's been called temporary suicide -- and for some of them it's permanent.</p>
<p>It's not like we try to get alcohol poisoning...parties are conducive to drinking, drinking is conducive to more drinking, which is conducive to black outs and injuries. Obviously none of us try to get injured/acquire alcohol poisoning; it's not a "cool" thing to do or a right of "manhood"/superiority. Sometimes we get too drunk. I've woken up with serious injuries and no recollection. Not like my goal was to destroy my knee and black out. I can't stand when people act like kids go out with the intention of getting that drunk. We can be irresponsible, but it's not a right of passage to get trashed and vomit all over the place; it's embarrassing, no one strives to do that.</p>
<p>I hope students will be more cautious after reading this.</p>
<p>Don't put your friends to bed drunk......ever.</p>
<p>yea ... and if he drank so much, someone should have put him near a toilet to throw up. laying face up will only cause the person to choke on their own vomit. my condolences go out to his family.</p>
<p>HiImAnAlcoholic: Here are lucifer's own words:</p>
<p>"I am ignorant? I can tell you, both statistically and anecdotally, that it is very rare and comparitively hard for someone to drink themselves to death. Me and my friends are all very experienced drinkers, and we all know exactly how we get when we drink too much, so we go by those signs." </p>
<p>May he rest in peace. And may you too HiImAnAlcoholic when your time comes.</p>
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<p>because drowning in toilet water is more desirable than aspiration of vomitus??? I don't get your point at all.</p>
<p>You're a moron, quite frankly. Since your time will come sooner, considering that you're likely middle aged, I wish the same to you, pal. I'm glad that you're a mature adult role model and handled the situation graciously with your ominous death implications. The implications in your statement are especially appropriate, considering the subject matter of the thread, props to you. I feel bad for your children.</p>
<p>because drowning in toilet water is more desirable than aspiration of vomitus??? I don't get your point at all.</p>
<p>he won't drown in the toilet because someone would be there to make sure that wouldn't happen. trust me, i know what i'm talking about cause my friend drowned in his own vomit after alcohol poisoning by laying face up and no one cared to flip him over. if i'd known, i'd done it.</p>
<p>I hope something will come about to explain to his family what exactly happened. I can't even imagine having your son's body, but no explaination why he's gone. Our condolences go out to his family.</p>
<p>HiImAnAlcoholic: ^Who are you calling a moron?!^ Dude, you said in an above post, "It's not like kids go out to get drunk." So every night you go out to drink you have the innocent intentions of only having a few drinks, and then going home? Bull$#!T you do!! Read your screen name, and get back to me about who's a moron. You're probably 18, and already a self-proclaimed alcoholic--that's something to be real proud of.</p>
<p>No, I didn't. Can you read? I say we don't go out to get alcohol poisoning. Damn right we go out to get drunk. Literacy is a wonderful thing.</p>
<p>My name is not remotely serious. If you can't figure that out then you don't belong at Cornell.</p>
<p>Actually at the rate you're going and by your CC screen name, I'm probably going to live a hell of a lot longer than you will. Just because you're young doesn't mean you're invincible. I hope you do live a long and healthy life because you've sure got the world handed to you by being at Cornell. You've earned your success and may it continue. However, I would hate to see you or anyone your age die so tragically. I too have had my fun with booze, but you have to learn that you control the booze, not the booze control you. If that makes me a moron, thank you for the compliment.</p>
<p>My screen name is not serious, congrats for missing that.</p>