I agree with you Stardog.
Granted, some people with AIDS/Cancer and other life threatening diseases or severe phsyical handicaps MAY indeed have a large number of friends and a supportive family, but what good are they if you're so ill or disabled that you cannot do ANYTHING for yourself and every single moment of your life is filled with pain and agony? You wouldn't be able to enjoy their company at all!
The idea of being paralysed and having children who you can't even hold, play with, take to school, feed ect..... Infact, having to be bathed, fed and dressed yourself - well, I can't imagine anything worse.
Although everyone's SP is different, it seems that some of us have this very false perception that we have it so bad in comparison to others, and end up depressing ourselves at the thought that 'everyone else' is living a wonderful, fulfilling life.
Many are not. Plenty of people in this day and age have their fair share of problems and traumas. However, they manage to get on with life by focusing on what they can do as opposed to what they can't.