Google was reading my mind again, and knew that I would find interesting a rather graphic news special from a Grands Rapids (of all places) TV station about people with their livers destroyed by alcoholism being denied liver transplants:
What surprised me the most was how openly it showed the son being on death's door at home, while his mother tried to track down a hospital that might do a transplant. I reckon if anyone has a son or daughter drinking heavily each day, regardless of their age, they ought to make them watch this to see what a miserable death it can lead to.
Update: and here's an article from 2019 at The Atlantic about the ethics of denying alcoholics a transplant.
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