This Is What Bigotry and Fear Do to People

This is sad; a whole family dies because of the bigotry and hatred associated with being HIV+. I know that we are usually frightened of that which we know least about, but society's ignorance about and consequent fear of HIV is just going too far when parents kill their children and themselves rather than face the world. The worst thing is, the couple lived with it for two years, but then when their daughter was diagnosed two months ago, they did this terrible thing. To me it appears that they could not stand the thought of their child going through what they had been going through, (the discrimination and intolerance in their country) and they decided that killing themselves and their family was a better solution. WHAT KIND OF WORLD ARE WE LIVING IN??? What kind of message does this send to younger people who find themselves diagnosed with HIV? In a world so full of medical and technological advances, it seems that in some ways we are no better off than we were in the days when people thought leeches would cure everything, and that it would kill you to take a bath because it exposed you to all kinds of germs and bacteria.