Poor guy. As someone who's never met anyone with dementia why couldn't they ask him about theory or current events? Would he just not understand the question at all?
I can believe it. I didn't have to watch that kind of thing with my dad, who died of cancer, but watching his deterioration over 1 year really changed my relationship with death. It affected me profoundly and I absolutely do not want anyone else to have to go through seeing that. For dementia it is a drawn out long process of years and the effect that must create would be horrific.
I've seen enough friends and family go through it and it's the one thing that if I'm diagnosed with (and there's a decent chance in the next decade or so) then I'm putting everything in order, having a party with friends then killing myself, not a joke.
I genuinely hope no one close to you has to go through it. But essentially yeah. It has varying degrees of severity and manifests differently but it is literally your brain fucking with you. Confusing memories for the present, mood swings, temporary amnesia. It's a fucking nightmare and it breaks my heart to know he's experiencing it. I'm 30 and have it in writing that I want to be euthanized if it happens to me (we recently got that option and it let my grandfather go out on his own free will surrounded by family instead of dragging on his misery for years and being a burden he had lung issues but my grandmother on my mom's side had pretty severe dementia from a head injury before she went and it terrifies me to me core beyond anything else.
I wasn't ready to find out that Parenti has dementia :kitty-cri:
Poor guy. As someone who's never met anyone with dementia why couldn't they ask him about theory or current events? Would he just not understand the question at all?
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Once had a professor who told us entirely unjokingly that seeing their father's battle with dementia was why they kept a gun at home
Wait, to shoot himself? Holy shit, that's dark.
I can believe it. I didn't have to watch that kind of thing with my dad, who died of cancer, but watching his deterioration over 1 year really changed my relationship with death. It affected me profoundly and I absolutely do not want anyone else to have to go through seeing that. For dementia it is a drawn out long process of years and the effect that must create would be horrific.
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I've seen enough friends and family go through it and it's the one thing that if I'm diagnosed with (and there's a decent chance in the next decade or so) then I'm putting everything in order, having a party with friends then killing myself, not a joke.
I genuinely hope no one close to you has to go through it. But essentially yeah. It has varying degrees of severity and manifests differently but it is literally your brain fucking with you. Confusing memories for the present, mood swings, temporary amnesia. It's a fucking nightmare and it breaks my heart to know he's experiencing it. I'm 30 and have it in writing that I want to be euthanized if it happens to me (we recently got that option and it let my grandfather go out on his own free will surrounded by family instead of dragging on his misery for years and being a burden he had lung issues but my grandmother on my mom's side had pretty severe dementia from a head injury before she went and it terrifies me to me core beyond anything else.
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