One of the first signs of the beginnings of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbearable, another unattainable. One is no longer ashamed of wanting to die; one asks to be moved from the old cell, which one hates, to a new one, which one will only in time come to hate.
Bio: Amanda Heggs was a Danish author. She was diagnosed as HIV positive in 1986 and was one of the first heterosexual infected women in Denmark to come forward and talk about her illness.
