AIDS look

What does a person dying from AIDS look like?
[This is a long post so please exercise some caution.]

The following videos you are about to see is what I think THE most effective
HIV/AIDS-awareness videos ever. Year after year, a lot of money is being spent
in order to raise awareness but nothing has changed -- every day, thousands
of people around the world are still being infected. I think we need to stop
"glamorizing" the image of HIV/AIDS with all these celebrity hoolabaloo
nonsense who probably don't know jack shit and the whole "AIDS is no
longer a death sentence" mentality but instead, let's show everyone the
REAL pain and suffering behind it.
seen someone in their early 40s, deteriorate away because of a disease?
Have you ever wondered what they are going through, what's inside their
head, how they feel and what their message to the world is? Ladies, meet
Rodney, a New Zealander who suffered from HIV for 16 years before he passed away last year.

After the jump, watch the videos Rodney and his partner took during the last
year of his life. Keep an eye on how he stopped himself from vomiting while
he gave a message about the importance of safe sex. Listen to him stutter
as he shared that doctors can't do anything any more. Watch him as he
moved from his house to the hospital. See with your own eyes how he
transformed, over time, into a decaying bag of bones in a vegetative state, waiting for the axe to fall.

Click click click click!

Before we continue, I'd like to request that y'all refrain from making
comments how it's someone's fault why they contracted the disease.
It's easy to cast the stone, say and point fingers but every situation
is unique. Some people are just basically clueless and don't know
what they are doing and there are others who know the risks and do
whatever it is they want to do. Some people simply don't care. Some
think they're invincible. Some would rather chose pleasure rather t
hat pain. Some are lied upon by their partners while there are some
who go out there, chase the bug, and deliberately infect themselves
(or other people). Have you heard of this 32-year old British HIV poz
man in Sweden and how he had sex with over 100 teenage boys and
girls and tried to infect them? It really is a big bad crazy world.

We all make bad decisions. We all make irrational, spur of the moment decisions. In this day and age, I'm sure most of us know what we're getting ourselves into. We all lose our morals from time to time. Don't tell me you've NEVER, EVER lost the plot and no, I'm not talking about sex here. No one is perfect and none of us is totally immune from making mistakes. Anyone, man, woman, child, wealthy, poor, brown, black, white, periwinkle, magenta, chartreuse, young and old can catch HIV.

So yeah.

I personally know a few HIV+ people online. Some are nice friends who happened to catch it and some are anonymous random trash-talking trolls whom I could only hope that they perish from the face of the planet soon. I don't blame them though. They're dirty bitches who like filthy sex. Just kidding. Y'all know karma is working well towards your favour when your enemy's CD4 count drops to 10. OMG! I would never wish AIDS to my worst enemy. Oh who the hell am I kidding. I have and I probably will, because I'm a mean and nasty person. Don't y'all want to see your enemies die from a slow and painful death? Oo la la the satisfaction on my face knowing they've got half of their body already in the grave.

However, inside every nasty person is also human being with emotions and videos like the ones you are about to see can easily turn a glacial princess into a softie.

Let's put HIV/AIDS aside for now. The thing that moved me the most is seeing this guy's suffering on "tape" and again, the message he wants to share to the world