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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This thread simply reinforces my desire to die or be able to end my life before I end up in any stage or memory care.

Honestly, what are we doing as a society.

My MIL's sister is in one of these places. No one can visit her without becoming emotionally shaken because it's so depressing.[/quote]

Almost nobody pulls that off because by the time you have a diagnosis, you’re deep in denial/other coping mechanisms and you’re too diminished to make the decision ethically anyway. [/quote]

This. My dad is like the PP. He would have rather died than have my mom care for him at home, changing depends and making sure he doesn't flush anything valuable down the toilet. And he would have rather died than pay $14k a month for memory care when it was too much for my mom to handle. But there was no point in the decline where he understood the full extent of what was going on and was still able to take decisive action. They said he had "old man dementia" and normal forgetfulness at first. Not going to kill yourself over that. By the time he was diagnosed with FTD he was already becoming child like.

The only option I see is to save enough money that you can put yourself in any facility and never have to worry about paying for it. And who knows how much that care is going to cost in the future because the goal posts are surely moving fast.[/quote]

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