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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I live in Canada, where I can access medical aid in dying in the earlier stages of Alzheimer's, so with competency.  I download the SAGE test from the University of Ohio and take that every year.  If I slip I will apply and then leave this world as a full human being and not experience mid stage or late stage dementia.  We qualify for pretty much anything now, strokes, etc.

If I lived in the US I would book the "business class to Zurich," and access it there.  I would not pay for memory "care" or continuing care etc.  I will leave my savings and house to a friend's daughter who is in a low paying field and will be poor in her old age.  There's better things to do with money than waste it on care because you're afraid to face the future head on.[/quote]

Not OP, but I envy you. Makes me want to retire to Canada. I refuse to inflict the amount of emotional damage and trauma we have endured from rage filled aging parents with endless emergencies. I can't image in is any fun being trapped in a body where al you want to do is destroy your own children and lash out at people.[/quote]

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