05-09-2008
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Originally Posted by marleyisalegend  maybe i'm not looking at quantity so much as "quality". don't most people who die in accidents die either right away or soon after?? it took my aunt an entire summer of intense and unimaginable suffering to die from aids. | Sorry about your aunt.
Quality of life is very important. Yes, you can die immediately in an accident or suffer for months or years with some kind of dreadful disease. But AIDS isn't the only disease that causes suffering.
I knew a man who got leukemia, went through hell with a bone marrow transplant and tons of chemo, only to die less than a year later. My grandmother suffered for months with colon cancer that spread to her liver. People with diabetes sometimes have to have limbs removed and can suffer problems with their organs.
And then there's cerebral palsy, multiple sclerosis, strokes, paralysis, ALS, burn victims, etc. Life can be really unfair. AIDS for the most part is a preventable disease, but some diseases we have no control over. We get some kind of weird symptom, have it checked out, and find out we have God knows what and don't have a clue how we got it.
My family history consists of high blood pressure, heart disease, stroke, cancer and Parkinson's disease.  |
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