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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What disease is incompatible with life but yet the host lives to 18+ and can attend college??[/quote]

You've never met someone with type I diabetes have you? Make a mistake with insulin and you're dead pretty quick. Lots of people live with diseases like that. [/quote]
Diabetes is not typically referred to as “incompatible with life.”

Incompatible with life is a controversial phrase because there are people who survive years with a condition that typical results in quick death, but it typically is used for things like anencephaly; birth defects or medical conditions so severe that the baby dies very shortly (minutes, hours, maybe days) after birth, if they even survive the birth.

A medical condition like diabetes, or a severe allergy, which could quickly kill a person if a mistake is made, is still not typically considered incompatible with life. [/quote]

This.  Please don’t misuse this phrase.  My child was diagnosed with a fatal defect that was incompatible with life.  He died.  Quickly.[/quote]

Also, when they tell you your kid is going to die, they don’t say that.  They say “your child’s condition is incompatible with life.”  That is what it means.[/quote]

Me again.  Sorry for the 3 posts, this really jolted me when I saw it.  When something is deadly but not definitely, they talk in terms of “survival rate” (with treatment of course.). When something can be managed, they talk in terms of “reduced life expectancy.”  Type 1 is in category 3.  It is not incompatible with life because it is treatable medically.  Incompatible with life basically is a way of saying “no chance” without saying it.  If you press them, they will say things like “there are experimental treatments but your child doesn’t qualify” and things like that.  Just so you know.[/quote]

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