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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No, I plan to self insure. I also have no interest in wasting away in diapers in a $15,009 a month memory care unit. [b]Just OD me. [/b][/quote]

Yeah um, if this is what you really want, then you need to write a super tight "do not rescucitate" will now and one that says that if you can't feed, bathe and cloth yourself, then you do not want to be offered any food or otherwise. The point, by the time you're losing it with dementia or through a fall or something else, you won't be able to assert these types of rights yourself and it's illegal for your friends and relatives to do this for you. 
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Is it even permissible to have a DNR for when you are a dementia patient but not otherwise terminally ill? It's one thing to stop feeding someone in the hospice who isn't able to feed themselves let alone get out of bed. But many dementia patients are physically mobile and can live for many years like that. If you don't feed them, they're going to come looking for food unless you have them handcuffed to the radiator or something. Having a ward full of dementia patients who are slowly starving to death sounds like a horror movie. What kind of Nazis would you need to run such a place? [/quote]

Do you know what DNR stands for? Start by googling that. You can have one now. It doesn’t mean you can’t eat or be fed.

Secondly, how do you think most dementia patients die in the end? They don’t die of dementia per se. They eventually stop eating. And slowly starve. Force-feeding them to keep them alive sounds like a horror movie. What kind of Nazis would you need to run such a place?[/quote]

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