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.
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.