I did read your thread too fast, Coelho, and didn't read it all the way through, I realize now after going back over it. I do that sometimes because there's so much ground to cover in this place! You were saying that life itself comes with an expiration date, so, as you choose to see it, it's a death sentence of sorts on its own. Obviously, that's true.

Back to the HIV issue for a moment. Even if I read too fast over what you were saying, I still want people here to realize that HIV doesn't necessarily mean imminent death. And it's VERY important for folks to know that, while some of the anti-viral therapies to suppress HIV can cause some serious side effects, those side effects are nearly always better than the level of sickness they'd end up getting far more quickly if their HIV went untreated. If that weren't the case, those medicines wouldn't be worth prescribing. Certainly patients of all kinds need to be very careful about any type of medicine they're taking, but I think it does people a disservice--and isn't accurate--to say that the current HIV therapies can be far more harmful than HIV itself. Almost nothing is more harmful to people's health than HIV that's been allowed to replicate to the point that it's causing full-blown AIDS.