My mother lost a very good friend to this disease. It really was the kind of thing that makes you question your faith.
She was the most queenly, dignified woman you’d ever want to meet. She went to the opera regularly and traveled in some very high class circles in NYC.
But, she was good friends with my mom, who was not quite at that exalted level.
To this very day I cannot believe that of all the things that could be inflicted upon a person by an uncaring universe, that ALS was inflicted on M.
I understand what people are saying on this thread, but it is one of the very few charities I give money to.
(No, I have not dumped a bucket of water on my head, not recently anyway.)
But, say what we will, this is one of the most brilliant fundraisers anyone has ever come up with, so I’d say that person at least earned their pay.
I pray that the 30,000,000 they raise from this challenge all goes to a cure. I hope the charity is not tempted to divvy up the funds amongst themselves, since this is outside their normal revenue stream. We’ll see...
Sorry about your mother’s friend. Sadly, disease does not discriminate between good and bad people (not that anyone good or bad deserves ALS).
The campaign is worthy for making ALS a household name, even if the people running it are less than selfless (although personally I have no reason to question their motivation). Its a terrible disease that deserves public awareness and the research funding that comes with that.
As for the ice bucket, not so bad. Hell, Russians do it for fun.