what is the worst disease? :confused: :o :eek:

sciforum addiction.

what is the worst disease? :confused: :o :eek:Certain memes spring to mind - capable of spreading incessantly and causing widespread destruction around the globe from one generation to the next.

what is the worst disease? :confused: :o :eek:Stupidity.
It’s become a plague.

Infected cavity in a tooth.

ebola is pretty nasty

Stupidity.
It’s become a plague.
how cliche.

ugh.

Cancer, largely for it's effective and terrifying pre-publicity: if you haven't got it, you're worried about getting it.

ebola

1) Desire to fuck prostitute, LUST.
2) Greed for money and power
3) Venereal disease

Oh look, someone's just posted this in another thread. They're going to have part of their bowel removed to prevent the possibility that they might one day have to, er.. have part of their bowel removed.
For example, if I had a very high risk of developing bowel cancer, I'd like to know, so that I could undergo a bowel resection. This way, I've avoided the bowel cancer.
A perfect illustration of my point.

Just out of curiosity, I wonder if any criteria could be established as to what exactly makes one disease worse than the others?

Can it be measured by its pain and suffering aspect? Is it the moral implications of the disease (IE- a person is a loser for being addicted to drugs, or contracted venereal disease). Can it be measured by a technical aspect (IE- one disease is worse than the other for causing the victim to die quickly, or worse due to it being highly contagious)?

A lot of people, especially people halfway through their lives, would say it's Alzheimer's. For a very long time you are keenly aware of it. You know you learned something but it's now gone. You can't remember the names of movies and songs you liked, soon all you remember is that you liked them. Then that starts to happen with people. You can't remember the people you met most recently. You forget that some important people in your life have died. You can't figure out how to work contemporary technology, you wonder where your typewriter and your phonograph are. There's a dog sitting in your lap who adores you but you can't find your beloved pet who died twenty years ago. What do you mean my husband is dead? My child was killed in a war in Iraq? What the hell was he doing in Iraq? This is not my house.

Before it progresses to this point you lose your day-to-day continuity so you don't know what's wrong with you. The problem is that at the beginning you can see this moment coming and you dread it because it means you've lost all control over your life. You see how scared, angry, and sad people are in this condition and you don't want to be like them. You can spend years seeing this moment coming and not being able to avoid it.

For most people it's much less merciful than death.

My mother and I never got along, at least not since I was about 12 and maybe before that. We would have been completely estranged if my dear wife hadn't done her best to maintain some sense of family. When we had to put her in a home it was like good riddance. But my sweetie pie gently talked me into making more or less regular visits. Ho hum, so we came, can we leave now? But then the day came when she looked at my wife, furrowed up her brow, and then called her by my first wife's name. We had been divorced for thirty years. She didn't know this wonderful woman any more, the one who had done so much for her, more than I had ever done. A tear came to my eye. I don't ever want to be like that.

Eventually you regress so badly that you lose your sense of identity.

Isaac Asimov--crotchety old dude though he may have been even as a young man--was much beloved and was surrounded by a steady stream of friends and family as his death approached. Everyone was so solicitous, they kept asking him if there was anything they could get for him, anything he wanted. What else can you think of to say to someone like this? It's just as hard on us as it is on him. That's another reason Alzheimer's is so dreaded, nobody wants to put their loved ones through it. You feel so degraded, so embarrassed, so sorry... in advance, for years.

On Isaac Asimov's last day, when someone asked him if he wanted anything, he suddenly started saying, "I want... I want... I want Isaac Asimov." He repeated that a few times, each time with more alarm. No one knew what to say or do. Finally he got a look of relief and said, "I am Isaac Asimov." Then he died.

He was in the process of forgetting who he was. Goddess, don't let me go there.

what is the worst disease? :confused: :o :eek:

Religion.

alzheimer's is pretty bad....people tend to forget about dementia type illnesses.

good call, fraggle!

Women + Femininity.

Dysentery
Malaria
Guinea worm

Well technically something that spreads slowly and kills fast is the worst disease.

The best disease being something that has no symptoms whatsoever, and spreads fast with a high incubation period.

What. You think women should be more like men, Muslim? ;)

I've heard tetanus is pretty bad.

Your muscles get locked and it's like your whole body is one huge fucking muscle cramp. That's gotta suck.

The other week, I saw a leper walking by the mall. Hands down, the most disgusting sight ever. BUT - it is treatable.

Parkinsons, on the other hand, is not. In its' final stages, Parkinsons is like being trapped in a coffin underground with no room to move and barely enough oxygen to keep alive. Worse, you're completely dependant.

At least ebola is fast...

Women + Femininity.

well you don't suffer from women so I'm guessing you suffer from femininity, maybe you should lose the pig tails, look more manly and get a hair cut?

Ignorance is the worst disease

well you don't suffer from women so I'm guessing you suffer from femininity, maybe you should lose the pig tails, look more manly and get a hair cut?

I'm not a misoooogynistic, I just love it when girls are massaaaging my dick.

I'm not a misoooogynistic, I just love it when girls are massaaaging my dick.

What about guys?

Well technically something that spreads slowly and kills fast is the worst disease.

The best disease being something that has no symptoms whatsoever, and spreads fast with a high incubation period.

No, it would be something that spreads slowly and kills slowly, like a prolonged increasing torture. Lou Gehrig's (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) causes a progressive paralysis, but not pain. Parkinson's effects the nerves and causes you to tremble uncontrollably leading to epilepsy. I think it would be something like ebola that eats away at you from within.

A friend I know had Lou Gehrig's and shot himself in the head. He was wheel-chair bound already but committed suicide before it progressed any worse.

I'm not a misoooogynistic, I just love it when girls are massaaaging my dick.

Muslim, half the time you are worried that your dick is falling off. Take your false statements of heroics elsewhere. You are not fooling anyone.

Muslim, half the time you are worried that your dick is falling off. Take your false statements of heroics elsewhere. You are not fooling anyone.
and with the rest he talks about how he and his MALE friends compare their dicks

be understanding, he's just a miserable muslim with an IQ of a dead and rotting iguana.

A misogynist is a man who disrespects women and believes that they are inferior. Misogynists still like to have sex with them.

Muslim, you need to start looking these words up and finding out what they mean before you use them.

A misogynist is a man who disrespects women and believes that they are inferior. Misogynists still like to have sex with them.

Muslim, you need to start looking these words up and finding out what they mean before you use them.
actually i think that he knew what a misogynist was which makes his comment all the more retarded

what is the worst disease? :confused: :o :eek:

Patriotism

Worst disease hands down is alcoholism. With the rest of them it is basically your life on the line and nothing else. Sure a few extremely close people may end up a little scared. Alcoholism however takes everyone closer than coworker down into the spiral with you

Worshipping False God is the WORST Disease!

Damn Fraggle... That's extremely unsettling, and very scary. :(

I'm with you on Alzheimer's.

Worshipping False God is the WORST Disease!


You mean money and false prestige ? - quick call the WHO!!!! We have an epidemic on our hands that is spreading out of control!!!

Although Fraggle argued pationatelly for Alzheimer's as the worst disease, I don't think it even makes the top 20. For 2 reasons:

1. It presents itself late in life, thus the person suffering from it at least had a life already.
2. It is rather painless.

Sure, it is long, but let's compare it with any disease that kills a young child in a very suffering way, a child who could never have a life because of that disease. I would say a mother watching her baby dying of let's say diarrhea (in Africa) is worst than watching your parent having Azlheimer...

I was thinking of it from the perspective of the person with the disease rather than the observers. When you get to be my age you'll probably have a different perspective on Oldtimer's Disease too. :)

The worst disease is the United States of America.

I guess in relation to earth, humanity can be considered a disease. More sepcifically human damage to the environment.

I'm not a misoooogynistic, I just love it when girls are massaaaging my dick.Now how on Earth did I miss this post!!! :bugeye:

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