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Is this really the way you would want to leave your family though?
by andrewguenther 11y ago
Is this really the way you would want to leave your family though?
- droopyEyelids 11y agoI don't know if you've dealt with any relatives getting dementia, but I don't believe anything could be worse than your brain and personality dying and leaving your relatives with a failing living body. One of the things dementia destroys is your ability to swallow. Most demented people end up dying of pneumonia after getting some food in their lungs. That means one of most time consuming and simple parts of your body's day needs to be constantly supervised and aided, which means either your family giving up a huge part of their life to babysitting a horrible flesh golem, or paying an enormous amount of money for some sort of care worker. Yes, I would MUCH rather leave my family after falling off a treadmill than dementia. I'd rather have a heart attack or brain aneurism or get sucked into a wood chipper in front of my whole family than mentally die of dementia and leave behind my body— burden almost beyond imagination— while destroying their memory of who I was.
- MichaelGG 11y agoDoesn't dementia come on a bit slowly? At first sign of irreversible damage, setup a good bye party and take some opiate+benzo injection