Alcoholism: Drug Abuse Facts

Question: Spiritually speaking, is alcoholism a slow form of suicide?

(Posted by: (Dillicious)cubed on 2008-12-03 20:35:32)

Just seeing what your thoughts are on a nonreligious issue, well for the most part.

Posted by: Servant of Jesus on 2008-12-03, 20:39:02

Yes. not only harming yourself, but others around you. drumbum.com/ lessons/ images/ dont-drink-and-drive.jpg it kills you VERY VERY slowly, from the inside out. making you fat, ugly, bitter, addicted and LONELY

Posted by: gertystorrud on 2008-12-03, 20:37:46

Yep. I used to be a drunk.

Posted by: Jonas J on 2008-12-03, 20:37:52

Is not everything in this life a slow form of suicide?

Posted by: Sinful Shelly on 2008-12-03, 20:38:16

We are slowly dying each day, no matter what we do.

Posted by: ronbo on 2008-12-03, 20:38:38

The abuse yes, the bible says don't get drunk, but a glass of wine is good for you.

Posted by: krishnokoli on 2008-12-03, 20:39:03

Yes. And giving birth is a slow form of murder.

Posted by: Purdey EP on 2008-12-03, 20:39:10

It's hard to say. I'm sure in most cases it's unintentional. However, I could see how it could be considered that.

Posted by: EndlessMountain on 2008-12-03, 20:39:17

It is a part of death, and alcohol is very dangerous for your body. Up there with cigarettes, heroin and mass use of cell phones. So, with that being said, it kills you, but so what? That is, 1 out of 1 humans are going to die anyway, so what is the big deal about death. Humans are very primitive to see death as a bad thing. Where it is beautiful. I myself have given alcohol up, and understand it could be difficult to stop or understand ones enjoyment of it. Peace, love and light :)

Posted by: somewhereovertherainbow on 2008-12-03, 20:39:33

Yes-but you don't need to ask "spiritually. " It either is or it isn't= = and it is

Posted by: golfman on 2008-12-03, 20:41:40

Most people who drink aren't trying to kill themselves, but if someone drinks to excess then yeah, they are killing themselves without thinking.

Posted by: the chosen one on 2008-12-03, 20:42:21

Allowing yourself to become addicted to a destructive substance to the human body is a slow form of ending your life before you have to.

Posted by: ▒�an†ès on 2008-12-03, 20:42:28

Actually suicide is more definitive than alcoholism because the results are rather "final " and the path fairly evident. An alcoholic often doesn't know they are one until the "signs " begin showing up and many alcoholics can live a lifetime without doing anything about it until they find themselves hooked on to a dialysis machine every six hours or in jail for doing something stupid like running over a family or even murder.

Posted by: Priscilla 101 >Is ENGAGED< on 2008-12-03, 20:43:16

Yes, my grandaddy nearly died from alcoholism. He was completely emaciated and basically on the verge of death when my dad put him in the car, drove him out to a mental hospital and told him if he ever took another sip of alcohol they would commit him. And it scared him so bad, he never drank again.

Posted by: Deus caritas est on 2008-12-03, 20:45:37

Alcoholism is such an intricate matter, that in order to classify it simply as a "slow form of suicide " is a bit stringy. There is no difference of opinion among physiologists regarding the facts of the action of alcohol in the human body. They differ strenuously regarding the conclusions to be drawn from these facts, some contending that alcohol is a "partial food when taken in moderate quantities ". Modern knowledge justifies the belief that in health it is never a food in any sense, be the quantity large or small, but always a poison, biologically or physiologically speaking; in disease it is neither a food nor a poison, but may be a suitable and helpful drug. It should be rightly called what it rightly is, a drug, and not a drink; a narcotic, and not a tonic. Its use as a drug will then be rightly restricted, as in the case of other drugs, to the intelligent direction of men upon whom the State imposes, at the present day, rigid restrictions as to preliminary education, supplemented by study of the technical knowledge of the profession of medicine. Its uses in disease are many: there are cases of typhoid fever, pneumonia, and diphtheria in which alcohol is a most valuable help, and in some other conditions its use may be advisable. Careful observations of its effects, in private practice and in extensive hospital experience, compel this conclusion: "Alcohol in health is often a curse; alcohol in disease is mostly a blessing. " From a sociological standpoint, we are compelled by incontrovertible evidence to acknowledge that it is of all causes the most frequent source of poverty, unhappiness, divorce, suicide, immorality, crime, insanity, disease, and death.

Posted by: dwgriffith101 on 2008-12-03, 20:47:15

Its an organic poison.

Posted by: Light Fly on 2008-12-03, 20:56:18

Yes, I believe it is slow suicide...and it's sad, to say the least to see someone wish this for themselves. Quite frankly, it is the saddest thing you could ever see in someone you know and love. My aunt, as precious as she was, had lived the most alcohol filled life one could imagine and ultimately died from sclerosis of her liver. It was incredibly sad to watch growing up over the years. Since her passing, the house has remained empty and let me just say this...you can feel her and a spirit of oppression lingering still within the house. So very sad...

Posted by: †lifeonloan† on 2008-12-03, 21:20:32

Maybe, perhaps smoking is as well. But certainly all of us are going to die, and most of us have a vice or two. Today, you can't even eat safely......if someone is not preaching about the radiation from the microwave, its the hormones and additives in food, ( this one I tend to agree with) or the fat content of meat, the cholestrol in eggs, the mercury in fish..........well, you get the idea.

Posted by: Hugh G. Rection on 2008-12-04, 13:46:01

Yes alcoholism is a slow form of suicide. You can not even say people don't know because everyone knows it will kill you. I also grow tired of Alcoholism being refereed to as a disease. A disease is something you can not control, however, when you are sober and decide to go get a drink you are making a decision to indulge in something you already know to be bad.