You hear this sometimes “oh Jimmy? Yeah he drank himself to death after his wife died” But this actually possible? Does the body reach a point where it can’t process alcohol at a certain point?
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Yes you can drink so much in one session/day that it kills you. Alcohol is a nervous system depressant and can shut off your breathing if you drink enough at once.
But when someone says “drank himself to death after his wife died” that probably doesn’t mean he did it directly (eg drank a gallon of vodka the next day and died immediately). When someone says “drank himself to death” it usually means they started drinking too much and eventually died of one of alcohol’s chronic secondary effects (cirrhosis, diabetes, cancer etc) rather than from direct alcohol poisoning.
TLDR: yes you CAN directly drink yourself to death. A gallon of vodka at once WILL kill you. That’s just not how the phrase is used.
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