Drink diet coke and you will die...

I love diet coke.  I love it really cold, from a fountain, out of a can, in my mouth.  I love it all.  I get a high from the first sip I take of it.  Its like my crack cocaine.  But I only have one a day.  That's it.  Not too bad right?  Anyway I just bought a 12 pack and brought one to work with me.  I crack it open at work and start telling my coworker how much I love diet coke and she goes on to tell me how many horror  stories she's heard of people (friend of a friend of a friend sort of a thing) who have died for no reason and the only thing they all had in common was that they are all avid diet coke drinkers.  She said that diet coke eats away at your brain.  Well that was enough for me.  I went and poured out my diet coke in the sink and that's the end of that. I have a 12 pack sitting in my fridge if any of you don't care about your brains come and take it away from me. I can't stand to throw it away. I totally think my brain is half eaten.  I have the worst memory, i can't think of what I want to say all the time. I thought it was because of all the weed i smoked in high school/college.  But now i think it's really the diet coke.