This article touched us so much that we had to share it with you all. Sent to me by an AA friend...
We buried him yesterday. The County Coroner had published the required notices for next of kin and nobody had claimed the body. It was just me and his sponsor, no preacher even, the county doesn't pay for those.

Not much of send-off, and not the one David had asked for.. A cheap coffin, a backhoe dug a hole, and that was it; just another old AA gone.

He had been sober over 20 years and first tried AA over 30 years ago, a stern and rigid man who tried to soften his edges and never could.

He was a loner, a fringer, an isolated man at the edge of life's good things. He hung in there.... and in the end hung himself. I don't know why; I can't know.

I know there had been a diagnosis of senile dementia, and I know that the doctor had added cancer to the list. But, I've seen AA's deal with such things before... I don't know why David decided he couldn't.

It isn't the first time I've been through this in Alcoholics Anonymous. I've known several men over the years who just up and walked out life's door one day. Sober but they are not happy. Sober but they are not at peace. Sober but they died of alcoholism.

Our disease doesn't need us to drink in order to kill us. I wish more folks knew that, and appreciated it.

Alcoholism is the only disease that is entirely capable of fighting back, of taking care of it self, and of(Click Read More to continue November's Article)