This photo essay is about a young man dying of AIDS. his family surrounds him as he passes. his caretaker also has AIDS and the family embraces him after the death of their son and care for him until his death.
I pray I never have to go through this with my children. But I am so happy that life is different now and if our children were dying of AIDS we can demand that they be treated like anyone else. not isolated ,shut away to die. but with all the comfort cares and love of family.
http://www.life.com/image/first/in-gallery/45701/the-photo-that-brought-aids-home
Thanks for the link to this brilliant photo essay. It's so heartbreaking to see what so many millions of people have gone through without the life-saving antiretroviral medicines :(
ReplyDeleteworst of all is the lack of compassion. Sick or not, approved of behavior or not, these are REAL PEOPLE with real feelings and the way people with AIDS were treated in the earlier days is just unacceptable. it is still unacceptable to treat someone the way many people with AIDS were treated.
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