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Raheem Bath, 20, a junior at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, went out with some friends to have a good time. He wanted to forget about the pressures of college for just one night. This sounds like such a common desire of most college drinkers. Bath decided to go on a drinking binge like most college students do, right? Bath ended up in the hospital for a week before passing away. What was the cause of death? Aspiration Pneumonia. As it turns out, that night of heavy drinking caused Raheem Bath to pass out and choke on his own vomit starting a fatal bacterial infection in his lungs.
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Bath's mother, Catherine, spoke at his campus memorial service. She gave his fellow friends a warning in Raheem's own words. She said, "I told them what he had said to his best friend before he died: 'If I make it through this, I'm never touching alcohol again.'" Raheem understood the dangers of binge drinking, so why did he continue to put himself in harm's way? Maybe it was because he felt that heavy drinking was such a common practice and nothing would happen.
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Catherine Bath has devoted her life to making sure that no underage drinker ever goes into a night of heavy drinking with this idea. She wants to save parents everywhere from the pain that she had to go through with the loss of her son to underage college drinking. Bath stated, "It just kills me to see these college kids drinking. People say, oh, it's just a phase they're going through. But you know what? They don't all live through it."
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