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Imagine that you are 23 years old.

You are also a ‘brittle’ asthmatic. This means that you can have asthma attacks that can rapidly progress to life-threatening status. You have been intubated in ITU a couple of times—this is a last ditch treatment to keep you alive.

So why, whenever you get taken to hospital, would you treat your disease as a mere annoyance?

Also, why would you smoke 20-40 cigarettes a day, knowing that it will make your asthma worse?

And why would you self-discharge yourself from the resuscitation room against medical advice only to require a blue light return straight back to the resuscitation room?

It’s just a form of slow suicide.