AIDS victims 'buried alive' in PNG

Jesse · 08-27-2007, 06:06 PM

PORT MORESBY (AFP) - Some AIDS victims are being buried alive in Papua New Guinea by relatives who cannot look after them and fear becoming infected themselves, a health worker said Monday.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070827...2nSIO44wkDW7oF

Pocahontas · 08-27-2007, 09:56 PM

This is about the ghastliest thing I've read in a while! All it would take is some educating these poor people about AIDS and how it is spread. Then surely these live burials would cease! Also AIDS has gotten to be more manageable now and it's not the death sentence it once was. If somehow the proper meds could be gotten to these poor sick folks...I wish I had the answers!

Isaac-Saxxon · 08-28-2007, 09:02 AM

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Originally Posted by Jesse

PORT MORESBY (AFP) - Some AIDS victims are being buried alive in Papua New Guinea by relatives who cannot look after them and fear becoming infected themselves, a health worker said Monday.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070827...2nSIO44wkDW7oF

When people acted like scared rats and the mob mentality sets in you get crazy things like this going on. Sad very sad. There is a millennium coming and judgment is not until that is over. I wonder just where these murderers will be standing on that day ?

AnimeSpirit · 08-28-2007, 09:37 AM

Terrible! I'm all for wiping out the existance of a disease by stopping its spread entirely, but not if it includes killing people who already have it, most especially by live burial.

Even if they did do this out of fear, why such an inhumane mode of death anyway?

08-27-2007, 06:06 PM	#1
Jesse Member Join Date: May 2007 Location: Sheveport Posts: 60 Rep Power: 0	AIDS victims 'buried alive' in PNG PORT MORESBY (AFP) - Some AIDS victims are being buried alive in Papua New Guinea by relatives who cannot look after them and fear becoming infected themselves, a health worker said Monday. http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070827...2nSIO44wkDW7oF __________________ Jesse

08-27-2007, 09:56 PM	#2
Pocahontas SBLive! Veteran Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 1,691 Rep Power: 279	This is about the ghastliest thing I've read in a while! All it would take is some educating these poor people about AIDS and how it is spread. Then surely these live burials would cease! Also AIDS has gotten to be more manageable now and it's not the death sentence it once was. If somehow the proper meds could be gotten to these poor sick folks...I wish I had the answers! __________________ "The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain." Jennifer Aniston

08-28-2007, 09:37 AM	#4
AnimeSpirit SBLive! Veteran Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Nowhere Age: 42 Posts: 1,659 Rep Power: 268	Terrible! I'm all for wiping out the existance of a disease by stopping its spread entirely, but not if it includes killing people who already have it, most especially by live burial. Even if they did do this out of fear, why such an inhumane mode of death anyway? __________________ Confuscious says~

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