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[quote=Anonymous]Eh, I’m not sure this is really that different. My mom also was terrified of getting Alzheimers and said that she would end her life. But as she aged and it became closer she insisted that she did not have Alzheimer’s, I think because she did not want to die. Even with those statements, at no point did it seem like it was the right time to take her life—since either my father or I would have to make it happen.

I think the question at this point is will telling her 1) lead to her executing enough executive functioning to commit suicide legally in a foreign country or to force their spouse to kill them and face all the consequences that come with that; or 2) terrifying a woman who doesn’t ‘t have the executive functioning to do anything about it. By the time most people with inherited alzheimers get there, they are in the second category and it is just profound cruelty to tell someone something that they cannot do anything about.

Now. If they have a plan and an agreement that was set in place before she got lost locally (which honestly is well past MCI and into stage 1 of alzheimers), and someone is ready to help her take her life, then please go ahead and tell your MIL. But otherwise, you’ve given her information she can’t understand or do anything about. This is exactly the circumstance for therapeutic fibbing.

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