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his (non) response to AIDS and the needless suffering that that caused. Any other infectious disease would have been immediately acknowledged and swiftly funded and dealt with. It wasn't until Rock Hudson went public with his HIV-positive status that he made any mention of it at all, which was years after it was first recognized. I've always been furious about that. I had several friends die of AIDS and others who are HIV-positive. I KNOW the suffering involved in that, suffering that no one deserves, no matter what.

Again, however, he was still a man and a human being and, while you don't necessarily need to be truly sympathetic, it's still a horrible, nasty way to die and for your family as well, and he didn't deserve it, no one does.