Re: [Harp-L] Gary primich/addictions - and irresponsible speculations

[Winslow Yerxa <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Paul Routledge <kingleyharp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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> 
> In Garys case I think that whilst sadly he lost his fight against it.
> I will always feel sadness for Gary and his untimely demise from his 
> disease of addiction.

Did he lose that fight?

Do we know for a fact that his addiction killed him or even that he
fell off the wagon prior to his death, or is this speculation? Has his
estate released a cause of death?

Both Paul deLay and William Clarke overcame addictions, to cocaine and
booze respectively, and then died a number of years later (but still
too early) of unrelated causes - undiagnosed late-stage leukemia in
Paul's case, internal bleeding that was again caught too late in Bill's
case.

Did their earlier self-abuse leave them more vulnerable to the
conditions that killed them? We can't assume that without evidence. Can
anyone cite medical research showing links between those medical
conditions and either substance abuse in general or those types of
abuse in particular?

Unless Gary Primich's estate chooses to release his cause of death, any
attribution of that death to addiction or to any other cause is nothing
but speculation and is both irresponsible and disrespectful.

Winslow


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