We need assisted suicide.

So you don’t fuck it up, and awaken to find yourself strapped down to a hospital bed having barely survived a coma you’ve been in the past three years.

It happens every day. Don’t be stupid and think it doesn’t because it does. Killing yourself is not as easy as people think.

AIDS is not over. As a survivor of over thirty years, I am here to tell you it was not worth it. Giving survivors a medal for having endured is a crock of shit.

Survived for what.

My bones are dying inside my body.

The pain is the worst.

There is nothing to treat the pain because we are paranoid about opioid addiction.

Then, there’s the humiliation of being examined by an army of doctors who are very rough and who end up doing nothing.

I have been sexually abused while being unable to move.

Others have had it far worse.

Then, there’s bankruptcy and poverty.

Not the kind of poverty you will escape from any more than you will escape HIV.

AIDS is not over.

Not even close.