>Ideally, being diagnosed with something like Alzheimers would result in a shrug, just like how you would shrug if someone told you you're gonna die one day. T

>Ideally, being diagnosed with something like Alzheimers would result in a shrug, just like how you would shrug if someone told you you're gonna die one day. That isn't reality, though. I wouldn't want to have that big black cloud hanging over me. If I'm not having symptoms, and there's no way to treat the disease they want to test for, I've no interest in taking the test. Life is stressful enough. I knew a guy who was diagnosed with cancer, freaked out, and had a fatal heart attack a few days later. Maybe that was already in the cards, but I suspect he'd have lived for a few more years without that cancer diagnosis.