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The official verdict by the coroner's inquest was 'death by misadventure'. A phrase known to many here I think.

we all have to die from something....or something.

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The official verdict by the coroner's inquest was 'death by misadventure'. A phrase known to many here I think.

Wot? Did she drown?

Mathijs

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Stones62
The official verdict by the coroner's inquest was 'death by misadventure'. A phrase known to many here I think.

Wot? Did she drown?

Mathijs

Mathijs, you as a Doctor of Guitars and Techniques, better keep away from medical issues and stick to your own beautiful guns. I am waiting for another of your great guitar/Taylor-related threads

File this under "Duh".

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File this under "Duh".

Not quite, considering she was still warm when the tabloids were printing utter crap about her buying heroin, crack and ketamine a few hours before she died and half the planet seemed to be rushing into dismissing her demise as that of just another smack head.

In the end, it seems she had no illegal substances in her body at all and it appears she hadnt even touched alcohol for three weeks until the day before she died.

[www.bbc.co.uk]

Damn shame that she got so close to conquering her demons.

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Stones62
The official verdict by the coroner's inquest was 'death by misadventure'. A phrase known to many here I think.

Wot? Did she drown?

Mathijs

Very funny.

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File this under "Duh".

Not quite, considering she was still warm when the tabloids were printing utter crap about her buying heroin, crack and ketamine a few hours before she died and half the planet seemed to be rushing into dismissing her demise as that of just another smack head.

In the end, it seems she had no illegal substances in her body at all and it appears she hadnt even touched alcohol for three weeks until the day before she died.

some similarities to janis' ultimate demise...

Alcohol has to at least be granted contributor status in the death of Jim Morrison. His bloated physical condition appears to have been caused by drinking. In Brian's last photos he also looks fat from alcohol.

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Alcohol has to at least be granted contributor status in the death of Jim Morrison. His bloated physical condition appears to have been caused by drinking. In Brian's last photos he also looks fat from alcohol.

How do you know for sure that they were fat from alcohol & not from (say) cakes?

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Alcohol has to at least be granted contributor status in the death of Jim Morrison. His bloated physical condition appears to have been caused by drinking. In Brian's last photos he also looks fat from alcohol.

How do you know for sure that they were fat from alcohol & not from (say) cakes?

With Jones and Morrison cakes are indeed much more likely.

Mathijs

Her family and loved ones may have thought she was not drinking...but addicts are great at lying and concealing when they need to.

In the end it was the drink that killed her....she got hit by a Guinness truck!

Was the coroner's name Sherlock?

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Her family and loved ones may have thought she was not drinking...but addicts are great at lying and concealing when they need to.

Most reports suggest that she hadn't been drinking for a number of weeks before her death. It has been suggested that, because she hadn't had any alcohol for a while before, her body wasn't able to cope with the amount she consumed that night.

Too Much Alcohol has killed a lot of people.

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Most reports suggest that she hadn't been drinking for a number of weeks before her death. It has been suggested that, because she hadn't had any alcohol for a while before, her body wasn't able to cope with the amount she consumed that night.

Of course when the amount consumed gets you into the >0.4% BAC range not many can!

I would like to know what the hangover is like from that kind of drinking. If it doesn't kill you you would probably wish you were dead the next day.

How people die from drinking

As the news that Amy Winehouse died from alcohol poisoning traveled around the world Wednesday, some were shocked to hear exactly how much alcohol the late singer had in her system at the time of her death. According to a pathologist who testified during the inquest, Winehouse's blood-alcohol level was .416 when she died, more than five times the legal limit for driving. In both the United States and Britain, the legal limit to drive is .08.

Alcohol poisoning is caused by drinking a large amount of alcohol in a short period of time. It is not always fatal; depending on the person and the amount of alcohol consumed, alcohol poisoning may cause brain damage, liver damage, vomiting, nausea, or unconsciousness. Women are slightly more susceptible to alcohol poisoning than men, due to a lesser amount of fluid in their bodies. A person's age, weight, previous alcohol and drug experience, and the type of alcohol being consumed are all factors that may increase a person's chance for developing alcohol poisoning.

"You can drink alcohol faster than you can remove it from your body and that's when your blood-alcohol level goes up," says Robert Pandina, Ph.D., and the director of the Center for Alcohol Studies at Rutgers University.

According to the Mayo Clinic, it takes the body roughly one hour to metabolize a single drink but the definition of what constitutes a drink changes depending on the alcohol. A drink is defined as 12 ounces of beer, 5 ounces of wine, or 1.5 ounces of 80-proof liquor. That means that if Winehouse had been drinking hard liquor before she died it would have taken her body much longer to metabolize that than if she had consumed the same quantity of beer or wine. It's worth noting that police searching Winehouse's home reported finding three empty vodka bottles but it's not known if that's what Winehouse drank.

"If you keep drinking alcohol, it's not going to get metabolized any faster just because you've consumed more of it," explains Pandina. "Metabolism happens at a fixed rate until all the alcohol is processed."

Pandina calculates that a woman weighing approximately 110 pounds would have to drink between 12 and 13 ounces of 80-proof liquor in an hour to reach a blood-alcohol level of 0.40.

"It's still a lot but it's far less than people may imagine," says Pandina.

But the effects of alcohol poisoning can be felt long before a person reaches that point. A person may need medical attention with a blood-alcohol level under 0.2. Vital functions may start to shut down before someone reaches 0.25. Death is possible with a blood-alcohol level of 0.3. And that's without prior liver damage from previous alcohol or drug use. A person with a damaged liver is at higher risk for catastrophic or fatal alcohol poisoning because his or her liver cannot effectively metabolize the alcohol.

"The message is very simply when you know someone has been drinking and drinking heavily, don't wait," says Pandina. "It's quite possible to revive individuals even at very high alcohol levels and keep them from having catastrophic effects."

"Call the rescue squad, get them on oxygen, get them to the hospital so they can be properly treated."

[thechart.blogs.cnn.com]

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How people die from drinking

Pandina calculates that a woman weighing approximately 110 pounds would have to drink between 12 and 13 ounces of 80-proof liquor in an hour to reach a blood-alcohol level of 0.40.

[thechart.blogs.cnn.com]

That's about half a 0.7 litre bottle (on the European side of the pond) - surprisingly little...

sad it is

Alcohol: The Gateway Drug.

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How people die from drinking

Pandina calculates that a woman weighing approximately 110 pounds would have to drink between 12 and 13 ounces of 80-proof liquor in an hour to reach a blood-alcohol level of 0.40.

[thechart.blogs.cnn.com]

That's about half a 0.7 litre bottle (on the European side of the pond) - surprisingly little...

Do you mean like a half bottle of vodka for instance ?

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Edith Grove
How people die from drinking

Pandina calculates that a woman weighing approximately 110 pounds would have to drink between 12 and 13 ounces of 80-proof liquor in an hour to reach a blood-alcohol level of 0.40.

[thechart.blogs.cnn.com]

That's about half a 0.7 litre bottle (on the European side of the pond) - surprisingly little...

Do you mean like a half bottle of vodka for instance ?

Looks that way; 80 proof is 40% alcohol.

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Edith Grove
How people die from drinking

Pandina calculates that a woman weighing approximately 110 pounds would have to drink between 12 and 13 ounces of 80-proof liquor in an hour to reach a blood-alcohol level of 0.40.

[thechart.blogs.cnn.com]

That's about half a 0.7 litre bottle (on the European side of the pond) - surprisingly little...

Do you mean like a half bottle of vodka for instance ?

Looks that way; 80 proof is 40% alcohol.

So the blood-alcohol level would be much higher than 0,40 then .
I suppose that if one drinks a half bottle of vodka the same day , it would be 2, 5 g ,not 0,40 ,am I mistaken ?

Because one bottle is 225 gr of alcohol .
How could she possibly drank 3 bottles of vodka ?After only one, she should have been in coma .

I think the numbers in that article are based on the MINIMUM amount of alcohol for a person whose body cannot metabolize alcohol effectively.

Everyone is different.

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Edith Grove
How people die from drinking

As the news that Amy Winehouse died from alcohol poisoning traveled around the world Wednesday, some were shocked to hear exactly how much alcohol the late singer had in her system at the time of her death. According to a pathologist who testified during the inquest, Winehouse's blood-alcohol level was .416 when she died, more than five times the legal limit for driving. In both the United States and Britain, the legal limit to drive is .08.

Alcohol poisoning is caused by drinking a large amount of alcohol in a short period of time. It is not always fatal; depending on the person and the amount of alcohol consumed, alcohol poisoning may cause brain damage, liver damage, vomiting, nausea, or unconsciousness. Women are slightly more susceptible to alcohol poisoning than men, due to a lesser amount of fluid in their bodies. A person's age, weight, previous alcohol and drug experience, and the type of alcohol being consumed are all factors that may increase a person's chance for developing alcohol poisoning.

"You can drink alcohol faster than you can remove it from your body and that's when your blood-alcohol level goes up," says Robert Pandina, Ph.D., and the director of the Center for Alcohol Studies at Rutgers University.

According to the Mayo Clinic, it takes the body roughly one hour to metabolize a single drink but the definition of what constitutes a drink changes depending on the alcohol. A drink is defined as 12 ounces of beer, 5 ounces of wine, or 1.5 ounces of 80-proof liquor. That means that if Winehouse had been drinking hard liquor before she died it would have taken her body much longer to metabolize that than if she had consumed the same quantity of beer or wine. It's worth noting that police searching Winehouse's home reported finding three empty vodka bottles but it's not known if that's what Winehouse drank.

"If you keep drinking alcohol, it's not going to get metabolized any faster just because you've consumed more of it," explains Pandina. "Metabolism happens at a fixed rate until all the alcohol is processed."

Pandina calculates that a woman weighing approximately 110 pounds would have to drink between 12 and 13 ounces of 80-proof liquor in an hour to reach a blood-alcohol level of 0.40.

"It's still a lot but it's far less than people may imagine," says Pandina.

But the effects of alcohol poisoning can be felt long before a person reaches that point. A person may need medical attention with a blood-alcohol level under 0.2. Vital functions may start to shut down before someone reaches 0.25. Death is possible with a blood-alcohol level of 0.3. And that's without prior liver damage from previous alcohol or drug use. A person with a damaged liver is at higher risk for catastrophic or fatal alcohol poisoning because his or her liver cannot effectively metabolize the alcohol.

"The message is very simply when you know someone has been drinking and drinking heavily, don't wait," says Pandina. "It's quite possible to revive individuals even at very high alcohol levels and keep them from having catastrophic effects."

"Call the rescue squad, get them on oxygen, get them to the hospital so they can be properly treated."

[thechart.blogs.cnn.com]

thats great post mate!