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Dolores O'Riordan RIP (Mod warning in op)

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    #332
    [Deleted User]
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    Sad end.


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    #333
    IamtheWalrus
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    Could happen any of us.


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    #334
    Star Bingo
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    It still astounds me the reach she had with her oirishness when she passed my phone lit up with grievances from remote hill stations in the Himalayan foothills to lesser populated prefectures of Japan. “Soundtrack of my youth” etc. I felt like a counsellor


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    #335
    Vinculus
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    Ah jayzus, I was only just thinking about her a moment ago. :(


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    #336
    123balltv
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    Similar to Whitney Houston and her Daughter.


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    #337
    Strazdas
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    It does illustrate what a dangerous drug alcohol is. It must be responsible for hundreds of deaths every year in varying forms.

    Imagine if you took a painkiller or something which caused you to pass out in the bath and drown. It would be banned instantly.


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    #338
    The Nal
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    Strazdas wrote: »
    It does illustrate what a dangerous drug alcohol is. It must be responsible for hundreds of deaths every year in varying forms.

    Imagine if you took a painkiller or something which caused you to pass out in the bath and drown. It would be banned instantly.

    Yet you can go to jail for smoking a joint.


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    #339
    williestroker1
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    Four times over the drink drive limit. About a bottle of wine? doesn't seem enough to get a person that drunk.


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    #340
    skallywag
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    williestroker1 wrote: »
    Four times over the drink drive limit. About a bottle of wine? doesn't seem enough to get a person that drunk.

    Her BAC was 330mg, that is extremely high. You can easily pass out at that level.

    It's not just the quantity of alcohol, it's the rate and which it went in.


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    #341
    ceadaoin.
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    Strazdas wrote: »
    It does illustrate what a dangerous drug alcohol is. It must be responsible for hundreds of deaths every year in varying forms.

    Imagine if you took a painkiller or something which caused you to pass out in the bath and drown. It would be banned instantly.

    Yet plenty of people do take painkillers or other drugs and drown in the bath and they aren't banned. The problem is many people don't see alcohol as being as dangerous as those drug when used in excess and it definitely is


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    #342
    kunst nugget
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    IamtheWalrus wrote: »
    Could happen any of us.

    I can't say I've ever had a bath when I'm pissed.


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    #343
    irishproduce
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    kunst nugget wrote: »
    I can't say I've ever had a bath when I'm pissed.

    She was in a hotel though tbf.
    A lot of people take baths when at a hotel


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    #344
    yeppydeppy
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    kunst nugget wrote: »
    I can't say I've ever had a bath when I'm pissed.

    In bedclothes after 3am


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    #345
    Pighead
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    irishproduce wrote: »
    She was in a hotel though tbf.
    A lot of people take baths when at a hotel
    Fully dressed though?


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    #346
    williestroker1
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    Just learned the drink driving limit is higher in the UK than here. About 2 pints so she would have had the equivalent of about 8 pints. Mixed with any meds she was on you can see how this could happen.


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    #347
    padd b1975
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    Alcohol and depression just don't jive.


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    #348
    [Deleted User]
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    williestroker1 wrote: »
    Four times over the drink drive limit. About a bottle of wine? doesn't seem enough to get a person that drunk.
    She also had therapeutic levels of unnamed prescription drugs in her blood.

    Saying 'therapeutic' might make it sound like the dosage was small, or irrelevant, but I take a 'therapeutic' dose of a drug every day, and it isn't small at all. I can't drink alcohol on it (or rather, I shouldn't), because the drug interaction is really severe (tiredness, depression, dizziness, heightened intoxication).

    My drug is an SNRI, and although not wanting to speculate, it's entirely possible that Dolores O'Riordan was taking similar.


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    #349
    Strazdas
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    ceadaoin. wrote: »
    Yet plenty of people do take painkillers or other drugs and drown in the bath and they aren't banned. The problem is many people don't see alcohol as being as dangerous as those drug when used in excess and it definitely is

    I would say alcohol kills far more people than any prescription drug.

    Somehow it is socially acceptable for people to consume a drug (alcohol) that can render them unconscious and which physically and mentally impairs every person who has taken it.


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    #350
    Crea
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    It's alot if alcohol and mixed with schizophrenia meds would definitely cause unconsciousness.

    This poor woman has been treated so badly all her life by the people who were supposed to protect her. She was abused by a close family member, her husband was an openly serial cheater and some members of her family loved her money and weren't afraid to demand things if her.


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    #351
    seamus
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    yeppydeppy wrote: »
    In bedclothes after 3am
    Probably silly to try and speculate on her intent though tbh.

    Hammered drunk and on prescription medication, a bath in your pyjamas might sound like a good idea.

    Seriously.


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    #352
    AudreyHepburn
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    What a terrible waste. RIP Dolores


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    #353
    SEPT 23 1989
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    4 times over the legal limit is nothing


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    #354
    Crea
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    330mg of blood alcohol content is definitely SOMETHING. Enough to induce unconsciousness.
    Look it up


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    #355
    fryup
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    padd b1975 wrote: »
    Alcohol and depression just don't jive.

    yep, alcohol makes depression worse


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    arybvtcw0eolkf
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    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    4 times over the legal limit is nothing

    Eight pints?.

    I'm a seasoned drinker, and a big lad too and eight pints would have me arse ways. Not enough to doze off in a bath, but add medications to that and God only knows.

    Poor girl. Fantastic voice.

    Pity she won't be let rest in peace, by some.


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    #357
    FishOnABike
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    williestroker1 wrote: »
    Four times over the drink drive limit. About a bottle of wine? doesn't seem enough to get a person that drunk.
    skallywag wrote: »
    Her BAC was 330mg, that is extremely high. You can easily pass out at that level.

    It's not just the quantity of alcohol, it's the rate and which it went in.

    Two bottles of red wine or just over half a bottle of vodka over 2 to 2 1/2 hours would be enough to cause unconsciousness.


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    #358
    Purple Mountain
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    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    4 times over the legal limit is nothing

    Coupled with prescription meds??
    Are you serious?
    And look at the size of her. Tiny little thing.
    4 times alcohol level in her little body?
    Happy Birthday Dolores RIP

    To thine own self be true



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    #359
    Atlantic Dawn
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    Mack Miniature Sheep wrote: »
    Eight pints?.

    I'm a seasoned drinker, and a big lad too and eight pints would have me arse ways. Not enough to doze off in a bath, but add medications to that and God only knows.

    Poor girl. Fantastic voice.

    Pity she won't be let rest in peace, by some.


    But it wasn't 8 pints, it was 4 times the drink drive limit as measured by alcohol in her blood, for a woman her weight and build it could potentially be 5 or 6 vodkas or less.


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    #360
    IamtheWalrus
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    The Mail says she wrote a suicide note last September but didn't finish it. Didn't bode well. Poor lady.


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    #361
    screamer
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    Does it matter really anymore....no
    A tragic end. She achieved much, was beloved by her fans, an icon, a mother, an extraordinary example of overcoming an awful start in life, and she dies in such a tragic way. I feel even more sorry for her mum and her kids knowing what happened to her but at least it's been ruled accidental so hopefully they'll take some teeny shred of solace from that. Rip Dolores.


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