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Social status: One of the most powerful reasons for living are personal, your family, friends and your goals you've wanted to accomplish. When you are diagnosed with a terminal illness or a disease which has high results of fatality from it, you want to spend much of your time with your loved ones, but at times after the diagnosis people seem to be anticipating death instead of life. Ann G. Smith (ALS patient) from Florida says " What a waste of precious time" to anticipate death instead of life.

Your social status does become affected, at time you may isolate yourself instead of opening up more to your family and friends. People become depressed and sad, denial, this disease involves a lot of powerful emotions.

Income and work: Your income will become affected as the disease progress, some people lose their jobs or become unemployed and on disability which adds a lot of stress, not only on yourself but also on the other family members of the household.

Personal health : Depression is often brought on when diagnosed with this disease, people have more difficulty exercising, walking, and tend to become more dependent on others or loved ones. The increase of infection becomes a risk, especially pneumonia, because of the weakness of the muscles and your diaphragm is affected.

Social support : The social support, receiving information becoming aware of what will take place, knowing who to talk to is very important when in regards to Lou Gehrig's Disease. Gender: Man are often more affected with ALS than woman.

Education: ALS can constrict you from furthering your education if you are diagnosed at a younger age. People have been able to get an education even while having this disease through the use of computers and other ways of communication and the use of wheelchairs. It is very important to be educated regarding ALS, especially once you are diagnosed so therefore the education will help you in better ways of coping. Learning and finding new information is very important in this process. Awareness is key, and more research where more people need to get involved is good to helping in finding a cure.