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Keeping you alive is not the same as living. A few would like to stay in situation where you can't do 99% of the things other humans do. Its very common in a l
by kamaal 13y ago
Keeping you alive is not the same as living. A few would like to stay in situation where you can't do 99% of the things other humans do.
Its very common in a lot of of places in the world to ask for euthanasia in case of such diseases.
- parasubvert 13y agoMagic Johnson and Andrew Sullivan have had HIV for over 20 years and seem to be handling it fairly well. Certainly a harder life than most, but that's not stopping them from living a full life.
- Fomite 13y agoHonestly, at this point HAART treatments for HIV are giving folks a near natural lifespan, and the major threats to their health are becoming diseases of old age - cancer and the like. And the years they have are fully functional. Compared to a chronic, wasting disease that will take years of opportunistic infections before you die, that's damned good.