frugalfran

Did the hospital stay help? How often did he need to be hospitalized (from your answer it appears to have happened more than once)?

What do you mean by kept clean? Do you have to do any special upkeep to it, since it's not being used anymore? I actually had never thought about what happens to the butt in this case...

I saw an episode in which the producer called paramedics for one woman who was trying to kill herself by having taken a bunch of sleeping pills. They do appear to intervene when the situation is life-threatening.