Emily O'Reilly

There was nobody, you know, he was doing the HIV bit and somebody else was doing that bit.

Anyway, it's got a bit of a long story.

Well, I was sent a pricey and they wouldn't give me his records.

They offered me a pricey of the conversation that we'd had for a few months after Brian had died, before I'd really started looking into all the medical stuff.

Had with me, exactly, exactly.

And in it he said, first of all, the note is titled HIV death.

Okay, so on Brian's death certificate listed, number one, a form of pneumonia and a pseudo bowel obstruction, which are the classic things that happen when you're dying.

And then under two underlying causes, it was Kaposi's sarcoma, HIV and severe frailty.

And he said in this note, while HIV and chaos are mentioned, his word, mentioned on his death certificate, they were not major players.

And yes, he had kidney this and blah, blah, blah, blah, all of these illnesses, but they were not linked to HIV.

And I thought, how the hell could they not be linked to HIV?

And that's what I set out to find out.

Well, it seemed... Yeah, well, it didn't fit the narrative.

I wondered why he had said that to me, you know.

I mean, yes, Brian didn't die like in the classic AIDS death.

I mean, that was true.

And HIV didn't directly cause his kidney and his heart and all of that.

But I wondered whether... Was he trying to protect me from something?

You know, we don't want to let them know that their brother died of...

It wasn't going to bother me.