re: What disease scares you the most?

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Since the first Tuesday in November, 2008, communism.

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This is a good, and accurate example. Look at us today.

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Though we have a cure for it today, bubonic plague scares me more than any other disease.

Imagine contracting bubonic plague in 17th century Europe. You would be left to die shortly after it was known you were infected, locked in your house by the local government's orders. Buboes would form all over your body, so painful that you couldn't even move. You would cough up blood and become delirious. If you were lucky you would fall into a coma before death. Unless you managed to survive- and those odds were very low- you would be consumed by extreme pain for less than a week until you were killed.

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The fact that it's humane to euthanize animals during suffering, but that doesn't translate to homo sapiens. Dogs, cats and the like have it easy when facing terminal illness, but humans don't. So if you get one of these debilitating diseases, the decision to make it go away depends on your caretaker, who is often looking after their own arse from a liability perspective.

alzheimer's.

wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.

I just can't imagine.

this or just Dementia - my grandmother had Alzheimer's, my dad has Dementia - I saw what it did to her growing up, and I see what it is doing to my dad now.

it is scary and really sad. to see what my dad was even a year and a 1/2 ago to what he is now, it is depressing.

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in this context..

Parker is yelling Bitch

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Ok, you sure she doesn't want to piss in his butt?

fricking rabies, you can be completely unaware that you have until you finally start showing symptoms. Unfortunately by that time it's way too late. By the time you start showing symptoms the mortality rate is 100% and you start going insane and feral.

I’ll probably get it one of these with my luck.

Typhus

Alzheimer’s, hands down.