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Sufferers of fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva remain healthy inside, but their muscles and tendons ossify, leaving them paralyzed.
People pretty much expect to be taken care of no matter what is wrong with them, and once they get their "insurance" card the hemorrhoid sufferers generally will not defer to congestive heart failure, for example, so the Oregon plan has a fatal flaw; the most basic flaw of all--human nature.
Some studies report that 20 percent of untreated sufferers commit suicide, making untreated manic depression as lethal as many forms of cancer and heart disease.
Sufferers of anosognosia are paralyzed on the left side of their body but don't seem to understand that fact; when asked to pick something up with their left hand, they will decline by saying they're too tired, or didn't hear the question, or don't want to.
At the beginning of the 20th century, the Cretan council decided to open a leper colony on the island; whether this was an attempt to force the Turks to leave is open to debate but the disease was rampant on the main island and Spinalónga’s position — offshore yet not too remote — was considered ideal for study of the disease and a quarantine for its sufferers.