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Imagine this situation:

You re walkin in the street and see a man lying on the ground…dying.

You can save his life only by that "mouth to mouth" you know what I mean? But you know that you will catch AIDS.

What will you do?

PS-This situation aint funny and the worst thing is that it can happen to you and …at least here…if you dont help someone who needs it to survive it´s considered a crime…

  joe,

you know AIDS doesnt spread by spit.without touching very much it can be done.

İf I will catch 100i%,I DONT DO İT.Because,there isnt its cure.it is murder,too.

if I am not sureI will catch or not,maybe I take the risk not  to be sad on account of prick concience.

First of all – you CAN actually catch AIDS doing artificial ventilation – not through spit, but through blood (you can have scratches on your gums and etc.) However there is only the slightest possibility…

Second – in this ocassion I will never think about AIDS at all as well as about "mouth to mouth". Come on! It is only in movies: dying person .. mouth 2 mouth .. voila! .. he is saved .. everybody are happy… 
You cannot cure everything like this!
I'm not a doctor - I will dial for help.

And one more thing – it is not that easy to do artificial ventilation. You can break some ribs and actually kill that person if you aren't trained to do it… That would be a crime!   

1. the AIDS thing will never cross on my mind if I'm in this situation.

2. It's not like I'm going to suck his saliva lol. AIDS doesn't spread by kissing (if you can even call it kissing, it's prolly CPR lol). and I'm the one on top so there's no way I got his saliva inside my mouth unless he spit on me.

3. I'm trained in CPR

so what I'm going to do are:

1. call 911

2. CPR all the way till the ambulance comes.

people with HIV/AIDS or not, they deserve a chance to live. 

that is such a sad and horrible story..

With people having accidents everywhere I keep thinking to not think when something happens (like in this situation for example)

ps: bleeding gum still wont give me an aids if he's the one with the bloody gum and still, I'm the one on top. lol I still believe I wont catch it and will still help him.

my trainer told me that even a CPR could make a lot of different.

oh and calling 911 is not that long trust me, the key is to report it calmly and mention the situation+location then give the CPR.

people nowadays think too much before they help somebody…and they judge too much. I dunno, people are getting more individual day to day.

I think what important is you have your own value and point of view dealing with this issue. So that even though people dont care about whatever happens around them, you're there to make a little changes. It's all that matters.

I jumped from the gate to save a kid that drowning in a river. keep in mind that I am AFRAID of height.  that's it, the key is to keep telling yourself to not think.  It was a GOOD feeling to know that you saved someone's live and with a little change you've made, their family won't loose him.

 I would lit him die , anyway he is going to die because of his disease and he does not worth my help>............

I would have to hesitate before doing this…because  I have no idea how to give CPR…anyway I suppose no man should have a problem with it. if this person died really they would have live with that hanging out head for the rest of their life.

Why we think this too complicate. Most of us are unprofessional. We should call police immediately.

no I'm not. you can tell that I'm an asian :D lol

1/4 Netherlands, 1/4 Indonesian, 1/2 Chinese. Been living in Iraq, Netherlands (well off course duh lol), USA, Indonesia, soon going to live in Singapore then heading back to USA next year

Jane Doe ready to serve you, sir

ps: I know but as long as I dont have any bleeding gum, I'll be okay. I worked for HIV/AIDS people before and they taught me how to be a better human. 

ps: the reason why I keep myself from not thinking because I believe that if I experienced something bad, I would expect someone help me like I would help someone. you cant expect someone save your live if you're being apathic  about those who need an urgent helps around you.

 joe i think i love myself too.im not gona sacrifice myself to let someone else alive  i mean in such situation havein aids an i have to save him…omg impossible…if i got through this ill call an ambulance…an thats it ..well ..that doesnt mean that i dont like helpin others ..ill do help as long as its possible..for example, i saw a lost girl in the mall once..an she was cryin, i couldnt ignore her that moment i asked her about her mom an then i took her to the security they will deal with it ..i was afriad that she might be kiddnapped by someone else so i prefered to take her to the security to ignore her..in such situation i could help coz i was able to do so but …common if i was gona be infected by aids ….then i would be like omg stop! u r gona die if u saved him  plus the one has aids an is dyin- is gona die later or sooner an me too but i cant help him an sacrifse myself..i hope u get it …an i guess most of ppl will do the same ….eventually im a humanbeing (i love my life)

I don´t know about CPR, so I will call for help instead try to "resucite" him, I could damage him and make worst his condition.

With or without AIDS is still a human being, so I will try to help him.

In fact, there´s millions of people with AIDS walking among us, and even you shake the hands of one of them, or you sit next to somedy infected at the movies, or whatever. Most of the infected look like healthy people, so you can´t avoid this reality.