AIDS itself is almost never (or just plain never) a direct cause of death. thus "AIDS-related pneumonia", etc. It all boils down to the nature of the disease -- AIDS destroys the immune system, but it's up to something else (often times something normally fairly innocuous) to take the life. Cancer, on the other hand, actually *can* be cause of death.
thus, someone dies "of" cancer.
but someone can only die "with" AIDS.
deleted user 10.11.2004 13:31
AIDS causes your body to be infected with some other disease that you can die of, say in Fred's case, pneumonia or even the common cold.
Actually, AIDS doesn't really cause infection. It destroys your immune system so that if infection does occur, your body no longer has the abilities to fight it off, and then you die.
Goo wrote: Actually, AIDS doesn't really cause infection. It destroys your immune system so that if infection does occur, your body no longer has the abilities to fight it off, and then you die.
Infection IS inevitable, unless you live in a 100% sterile bubble, which is theoretically impossible.
deleted user 10.11.2004 19:04
For those who are into European cinema:
The late great Austrian actor Werner Pochath (unforgotten for his starring role in "Mosquito").
BackToHuman wrote: AIDS itself is almost never (or just plain never) a direct cause of death. thus "AIDS-related pneumonia", etc. It all boils down to the nature of the disease -- AIDS destroys the immune system, but it's up to something else (often times something normally fairly innocuous) to take the life. Cancer, on the other hand, actually *can* be cause of death.
thus, someone dies "of" cancer.
but someone can only die "with" AIDS.
But than he died OF lung bronchopneumonia, not FROM, as jorge wrote... Am I right?
BackToHuman wrote: AIDS itself is almost never (or just plain never) a direct cause of death. thus "AIDS-related pneumonia", etc. It all boils down to the nature of the disease -- AIDS destroys the immune system, but it's up to something else (often times something normally fairly innocuous) to take the life. Cancer, on the other hand, actually *can* be cause of death.
thus, someone dies "of" cancer.
but someone can only die "with" AIDS.
But than he died OF lung bronchopneumonia, not FROM, as jorge wrote... Am I right?
that was that I tried to write, sometimes my english fails me ;)
wow! this is the best way to improve my english!!! I'm actually learning stuff around here :D
Now I can tell my parents that I HAVE to be at Queenzone, because they TEACH us english over there ;)
*putting on his grammar-teacher hat*
to settle the "of/with/from" debate....
one can only die "of" or "from" something that is their actual cause of death. AIDS is not a direct cause of death, there for someone cannot die "of" AIDS, or "from" AIDS, but only "with".
think of someone lying on their deathbed with a pocket full of sand. they have the pocketful of sand when they die, yet you wouldn't say that they had died from a pocketful of sand. they did, however, die *WITH* a pocketful of sand. (even if this sand somehow allowed the infection that finally killed them)