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I have to agree with IvySpice.
This is a terrible tragedy, but at the same time I feel it could have been prevented.
People die almost every day from drug overdoses, or by effects of their other individual choices.
When you do something like that, you're taking a risk. Sure you might feel good or whatever, but it is really worth it to have 547 drinks in your system??
I can't speak for everyone on this board, but I will openly admit that I drank when I was underage during my freshman and sophomore years. I'm almost certain most people here have, and you have to have gotten the alcohol somewhere.. but that was a choice we made. I don't blame my underage drinking to my older friends or my sister who would buy it for me on occasion, because I'm the one who asked them in the first place. To bring out this "everyone over 21 has a legal obligation" stuff is ridiculous... because driving over the speed limit is illegal, but most people do it anyway. I drive over the speed limit, and I have even got a ticket.. sure that was no fun having to pay for it, but I was the one who chose to drive that fast, so I'm going to deal with it.. I'm not going to blame the bank because they were about to close so I had to drive that fast to get there in time.
Plain and simple, you have to know your limit. I know things like when I should stop drinking, I know that I don't want to take the risk of dying from a drug overdose - so I've never touched the stuff, heck, I've never even smoked a cigarette before, I've never driven drunk before because I didn't want to put my life or other innocent bystanders on the line.
To think you can have that many drinks and be ok is crazy. If you are that intoxicated there is no telling *what* could happen b/c you'd be too "not there" to not realizing what was happening... and that's a scary place to be.
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