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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
DEATH occurs
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1.
... death.
BB p.30,
More About Alcoholism
Many
pursue it into the
gates of
insanity or
death.
2.
... death.
BB p.150,
To Employers
They have a new
attitude, and they have been
saved from a
living death.
3.
... death.
BB p.561(563),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
To those now in
its fold,
Alcoholics Anonymous
has made the
difference between
misery and
sobriety, and
often the
difference between
life and
death.
4.
... death.
BB xxvii(xxv),
The Doctor's Opinion
They
believe in themselves, and still more in the
Power which
pulls chronic alcoholics back
from the
gates of
death.
5.
... death and misery for them.
BB p.124,
The Family Afterward
With it you can
avert death
and
misery for them.
6.
... death, Bill, and nothing but the very ...
12&12 p.138,
Tradition Two
This is a
matter of
life and
death,
Bill, and
nothing but the very
best will
do!'
7.
... death, but still floating upon a perilous ...
12&12 p.131,
Tradition One
Like us, they had
suddenly found themselves
saved from
death, but still
floating
upon a
perilous sea.
8.
... death Drinking cold small beer.
BB p.1,
Bill's Story
9.
... death errand.
BB p.75,
Into Action
He should
realize that we are
engaged upon a
life-and-
death errand.
10.
... death for his astronomical heresies.
BB p.51,
We Agnostics
11.
... death from the towers of High Finance.
BB p.4,
Bill's Story
12.
... death in 1950.
BB xvi,
Foreword to Second Edition
He
sobered,
never to
drink again up to the
moment
of his
death in
1950.
13.
... death of one.
12&12 p.131,
Tradition One
And this they did find, in
measure to
transcend all the
defects
of their
frail craft, every
test of
uncertainty,
pain,
fear, and
despair, and even the
death of
one.
14.
... death or to live on a spiritual ...
BB p.44,
We Agnostics
To be
doomed to an
alcoholic death or to
live on a
spiritual basis are not always
easy alternatives to
face.
15.
... death sentence, and often to condemn him ...
12&12 p.141,
Tradition Three
At
last experience taught us that to take away any
alcoholic's
full chance was sometimes to
pronounce his
death sentence, and often to
condemn him to
endless misery.
16.
... death warrant.
12&12 p.174,
Tradition Nine
17.
Death was often near.
BB p.107,
To Wives
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