Wood, Mark

Mark was interviewed for Lon Nungesser's book, Epidemic of Courage: Facing AIDS in America, which was published in 1986, some months after Mark had died. Here is an excerpt from the interview (in Mark's own words): When you're young and healthy, you don't think of dying. I mean, you're not supposed to program that until you're sixty, seventy, eighty, or something like that, and now that I see it happening around me, I'm much more aware that it's a possibility. It's come too close too many times in the last year or so. It's taken some wonderful lives and cut them off much too early. So what do I say about that? That it's not right, that it's unfair -- there's no explaining it, and why won't it end? Why can't we find some reason and explanation for all of this and put an end to it? Because it shouldn't be happening. And I guess I have a healthier respect for it and a closer understanding about death, and because I do, I think I have a better appreciation for every day that we're all alive.