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And by all accounts, it was ONE night of binging, not a habit that killed him. Similar to a fluke car accident or something. Really hard to call it "wasted" talent

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This is correct, as I stated earlier, when I called it (his death) an anomoly.

Nobody does one really stupid thing one night and thinks "Man, here I am getting bombed on something I've never really done before, at least not to this extent. Boy am I wasting away so much talent." In other words, it's not like he had months of degenerative behavior on which to reflect. I don't think in that one night he had a chance to "realize" anything, or have any kind of epiphany. It was probably more like "holy *$## I feel good...man I'm really effed up tonight. wow. I wonder if KFC's open."