All this crap about everyone failing him, once he got a little older and had the capability to look after himself, who then becomes responsible?
He drank, to excess, he kept drinking, he will have known it would make him ill\kill him, he died, they were his choises, he wasn't force fed drink, no one made him go out and do it, sh1t happens.
Lanesra, you have made some pretty nasty comments on here about what you percieved to be drunks, so maybe you need to think before defending this chap
People really need to take responsibility for their own actions, you know, how we used to, instead of expecting authorities etc to help them out all of the time.