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   XPost: talk.politics.misc, talk.politics.guns   
   From: pxhxz@cadence.com   
      
   In article <43f83ef2-1c34-47b6-bf96-e65944e003d0@e1g2000yqh.googlegroups.com>   
   Brother Nate  writes:   
      
   >Years ago I posed a question here about a lyric from a   
   >Grateful Dead song - "What in the world ever became   
   >of sweet Jane / She lost her sparkle, you know she isn't   
   >the same / Living on reds, vitamin C, and cocaine / All   
   >her friends can say is 'Ain't it a shame?'"   
   >   
   >I can accept that it doesn't help sweet Jane to be arrested   
   >and brutalized in prison, but what I can't ultimately accept   
   >is that the people saying "Ain't it a shame?" were real   
   >friends.  If they weren't even willing to mention to Jane   
   >the things they saw with their own eyes they were little   
   >better than onlookers   
      
   How do you know they didn't mention anything?  In a typical case like that   
   friends try their best to help the person, but eventually you can only do   
   so much when someone is hell-bent on self-destructive behavior.  I happen to   
   know a lot about that.  I had many friends and acquaintences just out of   
   high school who abused drugs.  One person I know went into convulsions   
   regularly from Demerol abuse, but she wouldn't stop using it.  My wife's   
   mother killed herself with barbiturates, and while she was alive she would   
   visit multiple doctors using different names to get the quantities of drugs   
   that she felt she needed (and it was a lot).   
      
   -Pete Zakel   
    (phz@seeheader.nospam)   
      
   "There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn   
    what it is I'll get married again."   
   					-Clint Eastwood   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)