Dealing with AIDS

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This paper explains that the many books which personalize the AIDS tragedy are almost like a literary quilt of names that fought but eventually lost the struggle, creating the true tragedy of AIDS not only as a disease but also as a destroyer of families, love-lives and careers. The author points out that AIDS still creates rumors and stories, wildly inaccurate but believable, to that portion of the population who still thinks the virus was sent from God to punish sinners, creating the most heartbreaking situation in which friends now see their dying AIDS patient as a pariah. The paper reflects that, as AIDS patients tell their own stories and as their friends and lovers and family record some of their last vital moments, it is obvious that dying of AIDS is not like having cancer, a stroke or a heart attack because it begins with a mischievous virus, dancing unsuspectingly, a Trojan horse that turns deadly.

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"Men and women do not go quietly, many of them. They fight. They fight for some decent treatment, instead of being written off in some dreary hospice. They fight to remain with friends and family, especially children, until it is time to let go. "I'll go down the road to AIDS- but I'll not go quietly. And I do not want to go alone....I want, desperately, for you to come with me...to tell (those healthy people) that the ones who are sick need healing, not discrimination, compassion, not rejection, comfort, not condemnation.""

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