Belfast Airport to George Best Airport...

[smudge]

What is your honest opinion of changing the name from Belfast Airport to George Best Airport?

[smudge]

Now that sounds like a more sensible idea to me jules!

[jules1968]

simple really smudge, there is a shortage of organ doners as it is, without the ones that are used being wasted! it makes me really angry because life is so precious.

[smudge]

I quite agree with you jules, although it's easy for me to say as I'm not a drinker!

The whole episode infuriated me too, as there was always a possibility that George Best would go straight back to his old habits & he did - to the detriment of some other poor person wating for a liver transplant.

As I said in my earlier post, he was a good footballer in his time, but he was only a footballer.

[jules1968]

smudge, even if i was a drinker (sorry, a big drinker) i don't honestly think i could deny someone who could live for years to come if i thought for one minute that i couldn't kick the illness.selfish, very very selfish.

[smudge]

My sentiments too jules - although he had probably not only convinced his Consultants, but even himself that he was 'giving up' the drink for good - such a waste!

[jules1968]

i bet i sound horrible and judgemental, i'm really not and i do have sympathy for his disease. My Dad was an alcoholic and it contributed to his early death at 60, me being just 17, so its not like i don't understand. i just find organ donation such an emotive subject. I have posted a question on B & S about it! we're way off the subject of this thread now but i have took on board some of the comments about his charity work and the people of Belfast wanting this. fair enough, sometimes i would just like to see non celebs honoured in this way, there is a lot of more deserving people out there and i will stick to my original opinion!

[smudge]

So sorry to hear about your Dad jules. it must have been such an awful time for you & your family.

I really don't blame you for feeling the way you do, we had an alcoholic friend & the lies & deceit that go hand in hand with alcoholism, can be so damaging, not only to themselves, but to everyone around them..

[jules1968]

i did make that point in an earlier post about not just hurting themselves but hurting everyone they love and who loves them. yes, it was a horrendous time in my life and i wouldn't wish it on anyone. I lived with my dad as my Mum had left, so that made it even harder. He wasn't what you imagine an alcoholic to be though. He held down a good job and just drank as soon as he came home. Then he would just sleep it off, but it is very difficult watching someone you love more than anything, self destruct! Do you know, it took me years after his death to admit to myself that my lovely Dad was an alcoholic. Just that word is difficult. I enjoy a drink but always stop when i've had enough or if i think i'm drinking a little too much. I have been angry at him over the years for putting me through that!