From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... death.
BB p.30,
More About Alcoholism
2.
... death.
BB p.150,
To Employers
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
6.
... death, Bill,
and nothing but the very ...
12&12 p.138,
Tradition Two
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
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, he
carried the A.A. message to ...
BB p.171,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
To 1950, the year of his death, he carried the A.A. message to more than 5,000 alcoholic men and women, and to all these he gave
his medical services without thought of charge.
13.
... death in
1950.
BB xvi,
Foreword to Second Edition
14.
... 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.
15.
... 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.
16.
... 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.
17.
... death warrant.
12&12 p.174,
Tradition Nine
Unless each A.A. member follows to the best of his ability our suggested Twelve Steps to recovery, he almost certainly signs his own death warrant.
18.
Death was
often near.
BB p.107,
To Wives
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