Comments on: The Man Who Wouldn’t Die

By: Maureen A. Mulligan

Maureen A. Mulligan — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:36:27 +0000

I wish The Smothers Brothers or someone would write the Ballad of Michael Malloy. It would be fun to have a ballad played on the radio for awhile in the top ten! :^)

By: Grant

Grant — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:02:53 +0000

Ethanol is processed out of the body by the liver. Methanol cannot be processed by the liver, it is released through the lungs and skin, so it is processed much more slowly than ethanol. So ethanol is not really an antidote for methanol (in the sense that ethanol does not neutralize the poison), but it does prevent methanol from becoming fully toxic while ethanol is in your bloodstream. One of the treatments for methanol ingestion is to keep someone drunk on ethanol until the methanol is out of the system, and sometimes that takes days.

By: Coyoty

Coyoty — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:18:29 +0000

This incident was adapted into the Amazing Stories episode “One for the Road”.

By: Ellen F. Craig

Ellen F. Craig — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:51:39 +0000

I dearly loved this story. I’m so glad they all got what they deservied.

By: Wilson

Wilson — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:50:16 +0000

Ethanol is supposed to be an antidote to methanol — which is what’s mostly in wood alcohol. So these nitwits actually gave him an antidote to methanol. And, or, perhaps the wood alcohol wan’t very strong. Methanol is strongly poisonous to humans. Even a healthy human may be killed quickly by a very small amount of methanol. He was not healthy. So either he had an antidote, or he didn’t actually drink methanol.