Posted on 12/23/2012 8:03:05 PM PST by massmike
AIDS activist Spencer Cox, who helped form an organization to boost treatment research and recently appeared in a documentary about an AIDS coalition, has died.
Cox, who was 44, died Tuesday at Allen Hospital in Manhattan of AIDS-related causes, according to his brother, Nick Cox.
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He died from too many Cox?
Those gays have such long and healthy lives, there. Really makes that lifestyle attractive.
Butt cancer...
The NY Times article explains how this supposedly “chronic illness” became fatal for Cox. It was a suicide caused by stopping taking his AIDS cocktail.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/21/nyregion/spencer-cox-aids-activist-dies-at-44.html
“A young Mr. Cox can be seen in the documentary about Act Up, “How to Survive a Plague.” In recent years he wrote on AIDS issues for POZ and other publications, and founded a short-lived organization called the Medius Institute for Gay Men’s Health, which was concerned with issues faced by gay men as they grow older, among them loneliness, depression and substance abuse.
“Mark Harrington, the executive director of TAG, said Mr. Cox himself struggled with an addiction to methamphetamines. Some months ago, he said, a despairing Mr. Cox had apparently stopped taking his medication.
“’He saved the lives of millions, but he couldn’t save his own,’ Mr. Harrington said.”
One hopes the homosexuals publish Cox’s reasons for ending his life, one of which, is that the drug regime for this disease can be horrible.
The NY Times article explains how this supposedly “chronic illness” became fatal for Cox. It was a suicide caused by stopping taking his AIDS cocktail.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/21/nyregion/spencer-cox-aids-activist-dies-at-44.html
“A young Mr. Cox can be seen in the documentary about Act Up, “How to Survive a Plague.” In recent years he wrote on AIDS issues for POZ and other publications, and founded a short-lived organization called the Medius Institute for Gay Men’s Health, which was concerned with issues faced by gay men as they grow older, among them loneliness, depression and substance abuse.
“Mark Harrington, the executive director of TAG, said Mr. Cox himself struggled with an addiction to methamphetamines. Some months ago, he said, a despairing Mr. Cox had apparently stopped taking his medication.
“’He saved the lives of millions, but he couldn’t save his own,’ Mr. Harrington said.”
The NY Times article explains how this supposedly “chronic illness” became fatal for Cox. It was a suicide caused by stopping taking his AIDS cocktail.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/21/nyregion/spencer-cox-aids-activist-dies-at-44.html
“A young Mr. Cox can be seen in the documentary about Act Up, “How to Survive a Plague.” In recent years he wrote on AIDS issues for POZ and other publications, and founded a short-lived organization called the Medius Institute for Gay Men’s Health, which was concerned with issues faced by gay men as they grow older, among them loneliness, depression and substance abuse.
“Mark Harrington, the executive director of TAG, said Mr. Cox himself struggled with an addiction to methamphetamines. Some months ago, he said, a despairing Mr. Cox had apparently stopped taking his medication.
“’He saved the lives of millions, but he couldn’t save his own,’ Mr. Harrington said.”
The NY Times article explains how this supposedly “chronic illness” became fatal for Cox. It was a suicide caused by stopping taking his AIDS cocktail.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/21/nyregion/spencer-cox-aids-activist-dies-at-44.html
“A young Mr. Cox can be seen in the documentary about Act Up, “How to Survive a Plague.” In recent years he wrote on AIDS issues for POZ and other publications, and founded a short-lived organization called the Medius Institute for Gay Men’s Health, which was concerned with issues faced by gay men as they grow older, among them loneliness, depression and substance abuse.
“Mark Harrington, the executive director of TAG, said Mr. Cox himself struggled with an addiction to methamphetamines. Some months ago, he said, a despairing Mr. Cox had apparently stopped taking his medication.
“’He saved the lives of millions, but he couldn’t save his own,’ Mr. Harrington said.”
Yeah....I was wondering the same thing. How many other people did he give it to?
Not so. My very good friend contracted aids from a tainted vial of hemophiliac medication in the 80’s. He is doing well and happily married to a wonderful woman. God bless them both.
As always, it is those who care about the person who tells them to stop their destructive behavior. Their real enemies are those who encourage them to keep it up.
Can you imagine society and media cheering on alcoholics and telling them they should keep that bottle handy?
It’s insane.
And here’s another young death at 44.
Very true. There is more government and especially private money (imagine the motivation of rich homosexuals to ensure that they can visit bathhouses and public parks into ripe old age) than goes into any other disease research. Why government money? There are many heads or assistant heads of departments that would rather have consequence-free lifestyle choices.
Being a sodomite is somehow a new saint. Dying of AIDS is the new martyrdom.
Nothing to do with their filthy sexual proclivities?
Wow. He lived to a “ripe old age” for who he was.
Even many of those who do respond effectively are ravaged by the side effect of the drugs, which themselves shorten life, and the side effect and their severity increase with age.
No one should buy the propaganda that "HIV isn't a death sentence anymore." Sodomite activists HAVE to soft-pedal the disease that they own for public relations reasons.
NO IT’S NOT! FAGGOTS get CONTAMINTATED BLOOD into the Blood supply(Arthur Ashe).
Thanks. I’ve followed this disease for decades and remember the early 90s in particular. Back then, people were dying young, usually in their 40s, in very big numbers. Then the drugs came and the death rates went way down. I’ve read a bit on the drug therapy too, and it is not fun, at all, but it does, often, keep them alive.
In this guy’s case, it sounds like he was having trouble staying on the drugs, which isn’t good - and he paid the price.
Worse, now the Red Cross and a certain group of U.S. politicians -- one of whom is rumored to have served in Vietnam and is now being considered for the job of Secretary of State -- want to lift the ban on gay male blood donors.
Homosexuals are still dying just as fast, you just don't hear about it anymore.
It would be counter productive to their efforts to normalize homosexuality if they had to continue warning about AIDS.......
Sorry I wasn’t aware that you were aware.
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