Bruce Willis Now Diagnosed with Dementia.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What a cruel disease.

Exactly. My mother has dementia and she is suffering so much. She is depressed and confused and never would have wanted to live this way seeing how she is suffering AND the suffering her family has to endure trying to figure out how to care for her. I never ever want to live with dementia but by they time you are diagnosed often you don't have the executive functioning to end your life. Most likely she is going to continue to decline for the next 3 to 7 years getting more confused until she can't even figure out how to eat or walk. It such a cruel death.

I don't understand how there isn't a way to sign up for assisted suicide if you are diagnosed with dementia. So I could go through the process now at 55 and declare I absolutely do not want to live with dementia and once I reach a certain cutoff on mental test (like below 18 on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment) that I could terminate my life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What a cruel disease.

Exactly. My mother has dementia and she is suffering so much. She is depressed and confused and never would have wanted to live this way seeing how she is suffering AND the suffering her family has to endure trying to figure out how to care for her. I never ever want to live with dementia but by they time you are diagnosed often you don't have the executive functioning to end your life. Most likely she is going to continue to decline for the next 3 to 7 years getting more confused until she can't even figure out how to eat or walk. It such a cruel death.

I don't understand how there isn't a way to sign up for assisted suicide if you are diagnosed with dementia. So I could go through the process now at 55 and declare I absolutely do not want to live with dementia and once I reach a certain cutoff on mental test (like below 18 on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment) that I could terminate my life.

You don't understand how society can't let mentally ill people determine to end their own life? How that is a situation that lends it self to abuse from people who want them dead (like you exactly)?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What a cruel disease.

Exactly. My mother has dementia and she is suffering so much. She is depressed and confused and never would have wanted to live this way seeing how she is suffering AND the suffering her family has to endure trying to figure out how to care for her. I never ever want to live with dementia but by they time you are diagnosed often you don't have the executive functioning to end your life. Most likely she is going to continue to decline for the next 3 to 7 years getting more confused until she can't even figure out how to eat or walk. It such a cruel death.

I don't understand how there isn't a way to sign up for assisted suicide if you are diagnosed with dementia. So I could go through the process now at 55 and declare I absolutely do not want to live with dementia and once I reach a certain cutoff on mental test (like below 18 on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment) that I could terminate my life.

You don't understand how society can't let mentally ill people determine to end their own life? How that is a situation that lends it self to abuse from people who want them dead (like you exactly)?

Wow, NP here, but what PP is suggesting is essentially an advance directive that could ony be made while the person retains full capacity, and only implemented after they lose capacity and under the conditions they themselves instituted while they had capacity.This is allowed for every other health condition, including discontinuing artificial nutrition/hydration. I agree that people should be allowed to make this determination for themselves while they still have capacity to do so. Your accusation of PP's intent is horrific.

[Anonymous]

My father was diagnosed with primary progressive aphasia and “lived” for 3 very long years in a skilled nursing facility. Absolutely devastating to watch him lose all ability to communicate-he gradually lost all speech and was mute for his last 2.5 years. Ended up being unable to swallow and so entered hospice care but was in a near vegetative state
his last few months of life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What a cruel disease.

Exactly. My mother has dementia and she is suffering so much. She is depressed and confused and never would have wanted to live this way seeing how she is suffering AND the suffering her family has to endure trying to figure out how to care for her. I never ever want to live with dementia but by they time you are diagnosed often you don't have the executive functioning to end your life. Most likely she is going to continue to decline for the next 3 to 7 years getting more confused until she can't even figure out how to eat or walk. It such a cruel death.

I don't understand how there isn't a way to sign up for assisted suicide if you are diagnosed with dementia. So I could go through the process now at 55 and declare I absolutely do not want to live with dementia and once I reach a certain cutoff on mental test (like below 18 on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment) that I could terminate my life.

You don't understand how society can't let mentally ill people determine to end their own life? How that is a situation that lends it self to abuse from people who want them dead (like you exactly)?

Wow, NP here, but what PP is suggesting is essentially an advance directive that could ony be made while the person retains full capacity, and only implemented after they lose capacity and under the conditions they themselves instituted while they had capacity.This is allowed for every other health condition, including discontinuing artificial nutrition/hydration. I agree that people should be allowed to make this determination for themselves while they still have capacity to do so. Your accusation of PP's intent is horrific.

+1 Well said.