someone with HIV can live a long, relatively healthy, relatively normal, life
I heard that comment before. No scratch that. It was even followed by a promise not to kill him in that specific story and guess what happened - Ryan did of AIDS at a young age.
*glares at miss_begonia*

And even regardless of THAT story, that still haunts me (I couldn't even finish reading it...I just couldn't), I'm still begging you...for all the reasons you yourself mentioned above and some more, please don't go there.