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>It is preferable to die of "old age" (including heart disease or dementia) at 90 than from cancer at 35. Dementia shouldn't be preferable, you'll make life of

• AdrianB1 4y ago
  Living with one case in the extended family, we are still glad she is alive and able to recognize most of us and have a discussion, but probably this is a very subjective matter and your experiences may be different.
• telotortium 4y ago
  (Virtually) no-one dies of lifestyle-related cancers at 35. I still wouldn't want to die of cancer or heart disease at 60-80 (my grandmother was very unhealthy, had her first heart attack before 65, and died at 72), but I think dementia is a scarier prospect (my great grandmother died at 96 but had dementia for at least a decade before that).
• mod 4y ago
  My grandmother died at 99 with dementia. It didn't last too long, thankfully--it came only in the last few months. I'm so thankful even just for the last couple of years she got to spend with us. She was my neighbor, so we got to spend a lot of time together, and we had always been close. There was in fact a bit of pain seeing her at the end, but I don't remember her that way, and I wouldn't change any of it. It's definitely preferable to RISK dementia. It's not like it's a guarantee at some certain age. A lot of the joy in my life would have been diminished if she hadn't lived so long.