1986: A Rage to Live (8/5/1986)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ส.ค. 2024
- Sunnye Sherman, Connie Chung. 12 min.
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She died 36 years ago today, just 5 days after this aired.
36 that's way to young
That’s so sad. A very brave person who was clearly much loved by her immediate family. RIP Sunny.
R.I.P
Omgosh, being a 36 year old myself, that’s terrifying. I literally feel like I’m still a teenager, I cannot imagine being told I’m dying!!!
Such a brave woman. Her story was both heartbreaking and inspirational.
We’ve come so far .RIP to those we’ve lost
I love that the parents fell in love again
Thank you for your beautiful courage, spirit, and pioneering activism, Sunnye. It is heartbreaking to read this interview with Connie Chung took place just 5 days before she passed away (according to her Washington Post obituary).
Wow, only 5 days...that is terribly sad. Thank goodness she had such a wonderful and supportive family. That means so much to any terminally ill person, but especially AIDS back then when there was such fear and ignorance surrounding the disease.
Seeing the support her family gave her and Sunnye’s bravery to speak out about having AIDS was so remarkable for the time. If it weren’t for brave individuals with the disease who did during the time, the silence of the AIDS epidemic could have destroyed so many more lives. I’m so grateful to them. ❤
Rip 🪦💕😇 sweet woman❣️ Wow her parents are wonderful , her brother and family too💕❣️
I hope people who joke about this disease and make light of it see this show. She seemed like such a nice person.
What a beautiful family
It makes me feel angry to know that because of the year and because of how sick she looked, you knew she was going to die. And that there was absolutely no chance. The anger because you know the hope her family had was dashed. It’s just so unfair.
This aired 2 weeks after I was born. Bless this family. Bless the whole family. I wish I had ever had folks like them in my life.
Beautiful lady. Loving family. One of countless tragic stories.
What a brave woman who stood up against it
2:57 it was said her fiancé was tested and found to only be a carrier of the disease which means he doesn’t have the disease but can pass it on and that he was not sick. At this time I hope they were referencing HIV that he was HIV positive and not reached AIDS yet. This can come off wrong as if there is a way to just be a carrier.
I've watched quite a few of these in my feed and I've heard that referenced a lot. Its unfortunate because it implied that there were people who caught it that wont get sick, which I think may have given some people a false sense of security. The reality being, as you said, they (in most cases), just hadn't reached AIDS yet. There were long-term non-progressors, but that's a fairly small amount of cases. Around this time, HIV was still being called HTLV III. Guess we've come quite a way since 1986.
@@davidaikman1920There are some people with a mutation of their Ccr5 gene who have hiv but because of this defect the virus can not attach and progress. Elizabeth Glasser's (she and her daughter died of aids) son, Jake has it.
That's how my BF got infected because he said he was a carrier, but COULDN'T pass it along😲 He looked to me like he had full blown AIDS, but she believed him for some reason. He died the next year wasn't taking meds.
Beautiful woman 🙏🏼❤️to young Rip +
Amazing and brave woman. ❤️🤲🏻🙏
R.I.P. Sunnye
I wish she new more about it RIP Princess
What a remarkable woman and family. I wish my family and more people were like this. People were eager to abandon each other and divide over covid which was more than 97% fully recoverable.
She looks just like her mother
What is she doing now?
In Alabama my best friend's parents were the 1st one to test + for aids. I love them. I know that doctor. Don't let this disease kick your ass.
Hope she in heaven.
Do you all see how fast they can become life threateningly sick
Ha ha Connie Chung’s death stare!
Ok I feel bad for her . 😢😢😢😢😢😢
I remember Sunnye, in a video which her immune system was far worse.
Her bi-sexual fiancee did not have the AIDS, but a carrier?
Right? 🤔
@@westindiesgalfruits2335 I guess this was in the 1980s where information was somewhat off and limited.
Could have been like Magic Johnson 🤷🏽♀️..
@@westindiesgalfruits2335with Magic, the jury is still out how he got infected. Heterosexually or bisexuality.
@@Mr.Majestic77 but Magic Johnson has it/can pass it but doesn't "have it" like the girls boyfriend..
I’m so confused about how her bisexual partner tested negative but was still a carrier?
They didn't know much but eventually he ws a a carrier who eventually fell ill and sick to this disease, and more than likely passed away from this disease eventually ❣️
They used Rush for the outro music
I would love to know what drug she was on @5:13. It can't be AZT as it was not approved until 1987. I can't help but wonder if it's the drug that worsened her condition.
AZT was on trial from early 1986. The biggest trial was run by the NIH in Washington DC at this time. Unfortunately they discovered that while AZT monotherapy worked, it only worked for 12-18 months max. All the patients on the NIH trial were dead by 1989.
@@adrianh332
Apparently, AZT also damaged other parts of the body. AZT killed/worsened the condition of many HIV+ people.
@@jbak87 That's because in the early days the doctors were massively overdosing patients with the drug because it was the only agent that was (marginally) effective. AZT is still used as part of HAART (highly active anti retroviral therapy) in combination with other drugs including protease inhibitors, but in much lower doses, in high doses as a single agent monotherapy it was hugely toxic.
@@adrianh332 what a tragedy, if they didn’t take such massive doses maybe some of them would of survived
@@Dpurple28 It's certainly not impossible but it is unfortunately very unlikely, this is because everyone on that particular drug trial wasn't just HIV+ they had a clinical diagnosis of what was then called "full blown AIDS" very sadly once you progress from HIV+ to an AIDS diagnosis your life expectancy is on average 18 months to 2 years without treatment, the men and women on that trial were ten years away from effective treatments so there's no way they were going to survive regardless of whether or not they were overdosed on AZT. Their deaths were not in vain though, the knowledge gained from that and other drug trials was instrumental in developing effective treatments that have saved millions of lives.
My uncle was a carrier. He cost the lives of hundreds of men and women in Southern Florida. He has cycle cell anemia that causes his white blood cells to not be adversely affected by the AIDS virus because they’re already abnormal.
What are you talking about?
Sickle cell…
100's???
That's a lie, there is no such thing as a carrier for HIV, if HIV can't enter the T-cells to infect it, then eventually the virus dies out because it can't survive for a very long time outside the white blood cell, once it injected it's genes inside the T-cells, new baby viruses start budding out of the infected cell to infect other T-cells. If the virus can't enter the T-cell or reproduce once inside the T-cell then, then it, can never be passed on to other people. They're some people with abnormal/mutated T-cell that can never be infected by HIV, their T-cells are usually missing the cr-5 protein where HIV attaches it's self in order to enter the cell, people with that defect are like 0.01 percent of the population, if that protein is absent, no infection can take place even if the person is injected with infected blood. And once the infection can't take place, that person will always test negative because the body will never create HIV antibodies until at least one cell gets infected and HIV tests usually test for antibodies.
South Florida? Sickle cell anemia ? Unprotected sex with pigs? This is a black room now.
Why would she stay with a man on the DL, Sounds like she did it to herself
6:22 omg that's funny (not the death part obviously)
It's very sad the way the mom talks about her youngest son's wife, keeping her away from them. IMO, she was justifiably terrified . Look what covid turned people into, and it wasn't half as scary or deadly.
BDhE
Why didn't she just leave that guy. Think about it she's dead today when she could have left him and Been so much more. Smh damn aids. And damn people with no common sense. Sexual pleasure cannot be worth so much 💯
Are you like... Special in the head?
You ever heard of a thing called love ?it’s a powerful thing
He didn’t know he had it, she didn’t know u could get AIDS by sleeping with a bi sexual man. That was late 70’s early 80’s no one knew about HIV/AIDS back then🙏🏾
Horrible...
"Would not change his lifestyle" so she died of bigotry and ignorance - good
What a horrid, ignorant thing to say. She was trying not to get aids and die.