A friend almost died yesterday...
 

I went to a party and one of my friends was really drunk. We thought it was funny in the beginning but after a while he couldn't talk or stand up which was really scary. So I carried him outside and tried to give some water which he wasn't able to drink. Then when I wasn't looking he suddenly collapsed and knocked his head on the floor really hard (this part was particularly scary!). We took his cellphone and called his mother and an ambulance. Her mother finally showed up after ONE HOUR! And she didn't look like she cared about the fact that his son hadn't moved for a while now. When we first called them his brother picked up and we told him of the situation to which he replied:"Yeah sure whatever, say how's the party?"...
Anyway an ambulance came and took him to the hospital and I hope he's gonna be alright.

shit,
a guy i know went out and got really drunk with a friend of mine and choked on his own vomit in his sleep, his younger brother found him dead the next morning.
it only happened last week, i feel real bad for his family what with it been so close to xmas and that.
this is the risk you take when you get blotto drunk though, isint it really?

I was drinking with some friends a few years back and one of the guys was like what trasher described, fall down drunk, couldn't drink water and dry-heaving occasionally throughing up stomach liner. My friends and i finally got him to drink a little water and called his cousin who was in medical school. His cousin didn't seemed that worried, he said just get to him to bed, we almost dropped him off at the emergency room, but ended up going back to my friends house. The bastard that almost died the night before woke up like he had never even had a beer the night before. Crazy night.

kids, alcohol is bad for you

Man I hate it when somebody gets that wasted, it totally ruins the atmosphere. I was at a party at some really rich guy's house and this fat mess of a girl decided it was wise to drink half a bottle of MY vodka. As you can guess the same shit happened...

She fell into the swimming pool so had to be stripped naked, this was not a pretty sight and it still haunts me. So then we took her outside where she kept falling over and hitting her head on the floor and urrrgh it was just fucking sick. She was screaming and all her friends were crying. We finally got her sat on a chair, so then what does she go and do.... piss herself.

Anyway she totally ruined the party for about 2 hours but when her parents picked her up and we got the bongs flowing it was all good.

last tuesday one of my brother's friends died.. he was hit by a train on their way home.. my brother saw it happen, and i'm actually very worried about this because it's the second time he loses a friend in such a weird way (in two years), and he also lost some family members in unusual ways (euthanasia and suicide). he acts as if nothing ever happened and doesn't show any emotion, which worries the hell out of us and the psychologist.

I've seen people so drunk and off their faces that they had quasi-epileptic fits and then they got allright.If you drink and take drugs,it's a sad consequence.The same folks re-offendend more than once.Tough shit.

aww yeah!!
bring on the bongs!

Those stories are horrible! Drinking can be really dangerous, my friend graeme had to stay in a hospital for 2 days becuase his blood alcohol level was 6.5%, and you die at around 6.7. Earlier that night he was punching women in the face and being really sexist, it's sad to see some of the things it can do to you.

That is very sad. That is very strange that he acts as if nothing happened. How old is he? When my dad passed away (which I witnessed) I was 3, and it didn't affect me as much despite the fact that I vividly remember it happening because of my age, but my brother who was 12 at the time and he's been pretty depressed his entire life. It still saddens me and affects me more and more, but if he saw his friend get killed all of a sudden by a train and no emotion is really...different

a friend comitted suicide(shotgun to the head) last christmas, it was really selfish of him but whatever

Suicides are terrible, and I never know if I should feel remorse or not. My ex hung herself earlier this year and I knew she'd do it...just not when, and my great uncle jumped off a building and he was an alcoholic

To hell with bongs, buckets, chillums, brick pipes etc. I'll go for a slow boat of good moroccan hash. :)

When i was younger(by this board standards it feels like ages ago) one of my friends shot himself in a park.More than drinking,it was the drugs that did it.A lesson was learned.

i mean, i felt like shit when i heard about it
we all did
we were just so surprised, we never thought he'd do such thing
he seemed like such a happy guy, but i guess he had some issues

after it was all said and done, when i think about it now
it kind of angers me
his family (and those that were very close to him) will have to think about his suicide on christmas day

am i horrible person for being angry at him?

oh and let me say that this guy did not have a drinking or drug problem.
he was a devout christian and all that jazz

I think you have the right to be angry. Did you know of any issues he had though? My ex had...bad issues which I'd rather not get into, but her dad was put into jail for things he did to her and she was always suicidal because of how bad her life was

That explains it.

It's a very complicated thing suicide,isn't it?A friend's boyfriend took his life last year and the circumstances are so unclear i gave up alltogether.Can of worms,apparently.

Can we change subject?It's almost too painful to think about the damage that it has done done to him.From being an aspiring actor he's become the shadow of himself.It fucked him up so utterly and completely,i don't recognize him anymore.

Good call, I'm sure a lot of this stuff is personal to all of us

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Excellent.I have a cow in tow.

Cows are great; I always wanted to live on a farm and just live a raannnggeee liiffeeee so I can settle down and have pet cows and stuff. It would be sweet, but I would never give in to selling them because I wouldn't want em to be killed.

That duck thing is fucking disgusting...I would love to shoot that asshole and break her neck.

I'd shoot her head off and fuck her esophagus.

Its been a strange year; in nearly every other way its been close to perfect, but 2006 will be a year I recall due to death. I'd only previously known the death of a few relatives, but this year I've seen the passing of my very sweet and strong three-year-old niece Jessica, Rex (fine jazz drummer and very nice person), Stuart (sound engineer kind of guy, lovely man), Dougie (owner of a local museum and jolly decent fellow), Dougie's wife Alice (again, friendly, nice person) and Gary (a friend from work who just dropped dead, aged 40, always interesting to chat to). And another friend has just been told that she has six weeks to live. It all feels rather strange.

Sorry to hear about all that, Hipster. Its always been a fear of mine that a friend/relative would inform me that they only had a short amount of time to live, what on earth do you say to them?

Thanks.

Chris had been suffering from cancer for some time but it really looked like she was getting better and no-one would deny that she was handling it well. But all of a sudden she was told this a few weeks ago, and its like hearing it for the first time again if you see what I mean. I feel really sad about it because we had hardly talked for a couple of years, but we'd been gettin on very well indeed for a year or so. I will definitely miss her. I'm friends with her daughter too, and I admit its hard to know what to say to either of them.

I tend to just be friendly, as I would be usual, and let them guide the conversation; my own feeling is that if it were me I most likely wouldn't want constant chat about the illness but would prefer some normality. I do have a long-term (non-fatal) illness, as you may know, and that is what I want when I meet people.

People never know when to say to say when.
My one friend almost died last week. After a week of doing acid everyday, he ate a half of shrooms (smart, no?) and went almost completely insane. He ended up getting to the hospital but kept ripping the IV out of his arm because he thought the doctors were out to get him. He would have died if he had fallen asleep, which he almost did.

Now that is fucked up. I knew a guy who took way too many pills and too much acid and it totally fucked his brain up. He's now in a mental institute and he's 19, it's weird too because I used to smoke weed with him and he was fine. I have a family history of schizophrenia so I better try and stay away from that shit and keep off the weed

I have a really bad heart by genetics, so I stay away from a lot of sugar and weed.

My friend, her mom and I were actually talking about how he probably is schizophrenic or something. I've known him since I was really little and he's always been kind of crazy, and all the drugs he does have made it a million times worse. He just keeps pushing the limit (he's been involved with arson, b&e's, and countless other things) yet he just keeps on going. I think his parents should get him assessed.

Yeh I think that would be for the best, looks like this guy could end up in jail or something

I have no doubt about that.

That's tough. Losing that many family and friends in a single year, would make me very depressed. It's moments like this, that I treasure my health. I'm speechless...

sorry to hear that Hip
my deepest sympathy.

he's twelve, what worries us very much, because he has already seen so much during his life. his godfather died when he was still very young, not by natural causes. he doesnt really remember that but he heard the stories. then my grandfather died of cancer, later my grandmother. he remembers the two of them. then a friend of his died, the boy had a growing disorder, got some kind of attack at school, got into a coma and died two days later. land then my aunt got cancer and my uncle shot himself and now this. we're particularly scared it will affect him later, and very hard.

i'm very sorry to hear about your dad, and i can understand that it starts to affect you more when you grow older, i also hope your brother will be fine.


and hip priest: i'm very sorry for you. you'll need a lot of strength and i hope you can find it.

quite the same happened here: my uncle was manic-depressive, had been treated for years and had already tried to commit suicide, but then everything seemed quite fine. there had been some problems with his girlfriend, but at the christmas dinner last year they seemed ok and had big plans for the future, and everything was fine, he looked happy. but the fifth of january he shot himself.

most suicides come unexpected, when someone's saying he or she's going to commit suicide, it's mostly more a cry for attention (there are of course always exceptions). feelings of anger or guilt are very normal, but you have to know that someone who decides to commit suicide won't do this for just one reason. it isn't easy as that. usually, there are many different reason and one thing will be the last drop. you also have to know that a suicidal person doesn't think like you or me: they don't see solutions (so-called tunnelvision), and all you can do is try to get him or her out of this tunnel. if someone says he's going to end his life on a particular day, try to make an appointment with him or tell him to call you on a particular moment. he'll have something to look forward to and that may help. (these are things i learned after my uncle ended his life)

you're not a bad person for feeling angry, just try to avoid blaming people: it almost never happens that one person is the reason why someone commits suicide.

i had a good friend of mine shoot himself in the face after shooting his friend. It was a suicide pact. It was the stranges thing I've ever dealt with.

I'm sorry to hear all that, Sebastian. I've only had one death (my maternal grandma), and it has been a really good year otherwise. My sympathies are with you, man.

SubSonic- I've heard a lot about those kind of things. They are really strange.

This is years back, but my mother nearly killed herself trying to overdose. It stills scares me when I think back, because both my folks that year were in the psych ward for a week/two weeks. I've always been glad that Sean didn't really comprehend what was happening.