I did it. Worthy cause, even if silly gimmick. Lost a friend to this thing. ALS is the worst thing you can hear from a doctor. Incurable disease that tortures horribly, disables, degrades, and lowers you, leaving you fully aware of what is happening for years. Merciless, unstoppable, and incurable. I would rather have the worst cancer than ALS. I oppose euthanasia and suicide because of my faith, but if I heard that diagnoses from a doctor, I would have to give my guns to a friend because I would not trust myself with them.
I might be wrong... I listened to someone instead of research. So, if wrong sorry.
Everything you said, I am in complete agreement. I, too lost a friend to ALS.
I also lost a friend to ALS in 2012, and a cousin (though I didn’t really know him) in 2009. You are absolutely right in your depiction of the disease.
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.