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From the books  ...  Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)


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1.
... die.   12&12 p.30, Step Two
We saw that we had to reconsider or die.

2.
... die.   12&12 p.142, Tradition Three
If we turn this man away, he'll soon die.

3.
... die.   12&12 p.174, Tradition Nine
Unless there is approximate conformity to A.A.'s Twelve Traditions, the group, too, can deteriorate and die.

4.
... die.   12&12 p.189, Tradition One (Long)
A.A. must continue to live or most of us will surely die.


5.
... die.   BB p.15, Bill's Story   Go to page 15 in the Big Book
If he did not work, he would surely drink again, and if he drank, he would surely die.


6.
... die.   BB p.66, How It Works   Go to page 66 in the Big Book
And with us, to drink is to die.


7.
... die.   BB p.563(565), Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition   Display entire Appendix I
A.A. must continue to live or most of us will surely die.


8.
... die.   BB xxxi(xxix), The Doctor's Opinion   Display entire Doctor's Opinion
The patient had made his own diagnosis, and deciding his situation hopeless, had hidden in a deserted barn determined to die.


9.
... die a few years before his time.   BB p.21, There Is A Solution   Go to page 21 in the Big Book
It may cause him to die a few years before his time.


10.
... die alone.   BB p.561(563), Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition   Display entire Appendix I
We alcoholics see that we must work together and hang together, else most of us will finally die alone.

11.
... die, and he is once more left ...   12&12 p.43, Step Four
In time all his protectors either flee or die, and he is once more left alone and afraid.


12.
... die because they would not know how ...   BB p.154, A Vision For You   Go to page 154 in the Big Book
But what about his responsibilities -- his family and the men who would die because they would not know how to get well, ah -- yes, those other alcoholics?

13.
... die in political and economic wars often ...   12&12 p.176, Tradition Ten
In our own times, we have seen millions die in political and economic wars often spurred by religious and racial difference.


14.
... die or go permanently insane.   BB p.24, There Is A Solution   Go to page 24 in the Big Book
When this sort of thinking is fully established in an individual with alcoholic tendencies, he has probably placed himself beyond human aid, and unless locked up, may die or go permanently insane.


15.
... die separately.   BB xix, Foreword to Second Edition   Display entire Foreword to Second Edition
But out of this frightening and at first disrupting experience the conviction grew that A.A.'s had to hang together or die separately.


Passages from the Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions are reprinted with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.  The A.A. Preamble, copyright © The A.A. Grapevine, Inc., is reprinted with permission.  Permission to reprint does not in any way imply affiliation with or endorsement by either Alcoholics Anonymous or The A.A. Grapevine, Inc.

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