Shane MacGowan Isn't Dead?

It is amazing but it is true Shane MacGowan is still alive! If anyone should be dead it is Shane MacGowan not because he is a bad person but because he has lived life well over the top. If there is a drug Shane has used it and abused it. Sinead O'Connor, not the usual voice of reason, turned him into the cops for heroin use! He claims to having started drinking at age 4 and was drinking whiskey at 10. His antics both on and off stage are legendary. He once stopped singing on stage and vomited on to the people in the front of the house. That's punk rock!
He is known to only perform drunk and his interviews are usually incoherent. But some how he soliders on. His band the Pouges kicked him out for a while because of his behavior. But he still wakes up everyday. The luck of the Irish?