21-Year-Old Drinker Dies After His Liver Splits in Half
21-year-old Steven Massey has died in hospital after alcohol-induced cirrhosis of the liver became so bad that it split the organ in half. The young man leaves behind two children: 3-year-old TJ and 5-month-old Meya.
Massey began drinking in his early teenage years and was soon drinking up to 15 bottles of wine a day. His mother encouraged other parents in similar situations to get help as soon as possible, saying "kids don't realise what damage they are doing."
"In hospital, he prayed to see his children grow up. And he would tell friends, 'don't drink – look what it's done to me'. I don't want any mother to go through this. My family have all been to hell and back," she said.
If he wanted to be f'd up that bad he might as well have moved to stronger drugs like crack or meth. Im sure on 15 bottles a day he functioned like a crack or meth addict. Thats nuts.
I would have thought that crack or meth would be a better option, imagine how often you'd have to pee if you were drinking 15 bottles of wine a day! He must have been taking the stuff to the toilet with him, surely there just aren't enough hours in a day to drink and pee out 15 bottles of wine! lol
I've noticed these mentioned more and more lately and I'm a bit concerned. *Admins please let us know if this should be taken to the forums instead.* Here's why: Would you really want to give up yet another liberty, albeit often abused, to the policy makers that are doing such a fine job mis-managing everything else? Provided that the control over this isn't purposefully abused by various institutions on eternal powertrips, what criteria do you think define good parents before they are parents? I have personally seen a few examples of people that would act like boneheads before they have kids completely turn around and become some very thoughtful, attentive, and wise parents once they became parents! Parenthood is a very powerful catalytic that can trigger some very profound changes in peoples' lives. I have also seen examples of adults that are educated, radiate responsibility at a workplace, but either neglect their kids or push them to act according to their own (parents') image of what their kids should be.
Going to have to mention the mother here. How can you be stupid enough to give birth to two children from a man who must be permanently drunk?
And as for parenting permits I am all for them. They should not be allocated on a basis of merit, but taken away on the basis of doing things to lose them. IE: Being drunk too often, certain (most) crimes, drugs, violent behaviour etc.
I'd like to see a detailed proposal suggestion how you would accomplish this and a detailed budget on how you play to spend our tax dollars.
Let's be practical... even *IF* licensing parents were to become a popular idea there is no way you could monitor to this level of detail without ludicrous amounts of money and privacy violations.
I think we all know that parent licences are never going to be introduced (But I still think castration for certain criminals would kind of be a good start to this).
Just as unfortunately we all know our tax money is never going to get spent in a logical manner, that politicians are always going to be corrupt and stupid, that criminals are always going to get less punishment than they deserve etc.
Only the blindly optimistic actually think that any of our useful ideas will ever make it into the real world.
regarding your comment on Parenting Licensing comments, can I get an Amen? I would speculate that those who propose such a ridiculous action have no actual parenting experience. There will always be bad parents and the children who will suffer because of them. That's life in the big city.
I really can't have sympathy either. Alcoholism is a terrible disease, but with the rate this kid crashed, he must have been going at it at an idiotic rate. I pity the kids because they're going ot have real problems, not the least of which is probably the kind of woman who would have two kids with this kind of guy. Seems grandma doesn't have the greatest parenting skills, either. Plenty of people grew up in towns with nothing for youths, so that's no excuse. I'd say he practically needed HELP to reach this low!
My Dad has being drinking since he was teen he will be 60 in jan my siblings and I are surprised he has not died yet with the amount of boooze he drinks stories like this make you think that you cant take life for granted yes you can go out and have a good time with friends and family but 15 bottles ! feel bad for his children
I am 22 years old, married and have twin 3 year old boys. I have a steady job at one of the top trucking companies in the nation; my wife works also at a top national bank. For a while I was working two jobs until I got an upper management job; we pay ALL of our own bills.
So it can be done if your not trash. (Not trying to boast just hate it when it's applied to everyone my age, when not all of us are fack-ups!)
