Global Perspectives 2009: Islands
- Death Diminishes Me
- When John Donne hopefully asserted that no man is an island, he couldn’t have foreseen the agony of isolation suffered by those living with the HIV virus. Add guilt, abandonment, memory, anger and the wearing effects of a serious illness and the sufferer can feel not so much like an island as an abandoned leper colony.
Six New Zealand men who, having been HIV positive for more than 20 years and having lost both lovers and friends to the disease are now isolated by the same things that connect them - infection, guilt, loss and hope.
Produced by Gareth Watkins for Radio New Zealand (duration: 28′08″) - Download: Ogg Vorbis MP3
Transcript
A transcript of Death Diminishes Me is available here.