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What if the comfort they need is not living a life with dementia and not wishing to burden their loved ones with that status quo? With dementia some people rev
by Freak_NL 8y ago
What if the comfort they need is not living a life with dementia and not wishing to burden their loved ones with that status quo?
With dementia some people revert into a blissful state of ignorance, while for others every day is a new day awakened into a nightmarish state of constant agitation, anger, confusion, and loss. Often this is a state that no amount of therapy or care can address. Couple that with a strong body, and you can be kept 'comfortably' alive for a decade or more. Hardly a humane solution to not wishing to allow people to choose their own death.
It also means that in countries with that view codified in law, anyone wishing to avoid that level of personal hell will have to commit suicide long before the need is there — depriving themselves and loved ones of an unknown length of time spent as they please.