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What disease do you frear most?

AIDS.
It just has such a stigma to it, you know? And it's so scary. I had an AIDS test once. Funny thing was, I was a virgin.Ah, paranoia will destroy ya.

Amy, 23
Baton Rouge,
LA

Cancer, a close friend was very sadly diagnosed just last week…

Helena, 31
Sydney AUSTRALIA

Anything that would leave me pinned inside a deteriorating body for years, or would leave my family to cope with a mindless hulk.

Jane, 60
West Linn
, OR

Heart disease and cancer. It would probably be aids if I had sex more often, but my sex life is pretty pathetic.

Socrates One
Lowell, MA

Any debilitating degenerative disease. Like bad arthritis or MS. I'm sure there are others, but I'd rather not obssess over the subject.

Firelady, 22
Dallas,
TX

Cancer

Jeremy, 13
Highlands Ranch,  CO

Any disease that would shorten my lifespan and possibly could affect others, most likely aids...

Aurora, 17
Montreal, Quebec CANADA

Adult onset diabetes is the disease that I will mostly like get. I've taken steps to avoid it -- exercise, good eating habits, etc.

Laura, 35
Lowell
, MA

I have always hoped that I would never have to deal with any medical condition that involved diminished mental capacity whether from illness or injury or the indignities of old age. Unfortunately, my husband is now in the middle states of a developing dementia.

Jill, 59
Saylorsburg,
PA

Anything that would impair my breathing or leave me hacking up blood.

Felicia, 34
Somerville,
MA

Hmm. Airborn things are pretty scary, liek teh black plague or something that can kill you in an instant, but I think I fear A.I.D.S. most. The natural ways you can get it...a blood transmition or sex. Getting it through sex would be the worst. Making death instead of love. Then you have to live out the rest of your days, thinking about those you love who gave it to you, or those you love that you gave it too. It's capital punishment for being in love.

Jaden, 20
Brampton,  Ontario CANADA

Anything that results in paralysis.

Karen, 20
Marshelltown/Ames,
IA

Gingivitus.

Alias Irrelevante

I fear anything incurable.

Jami, 27
Lowell,
MA

aids

Angela, 16
Bella Vista,
AK

Leprosy
I will never go to Calcutta.

Anthony, 25
Baton Rouge,
LA

I suppose the disease I fear most is the Ebola virus, not that it is likely I am going to catch that.

Ernest, 28
Washington
, DC

AIDS

Janet, 42
E. Brunswick,
NJ

Yesterday / Tomorrow