If you we told you were in the very early stages of dementia what would you do?...would you start to make plans to leave this world before you could not do anything for yourself...like being depended on others to wash you, feed you, change you , wipe your bottom, become bed riddin with bed sores and everything that goes with Dementia...would you really want to stay until all this happened.
2007-10-15 11:25:40 · 7 answers · asked by pam d 4 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Infectious Diseases
My dad has early-onset Alzheimer's so I've got a 50/50 chance. I've already told my husband what to do if I get it...all the things my mom and I should have done. He's got to divorce me and take all my money. (Not stop caring for me, just stop being financially & legally responsible for me.) Somehow he and my friends have to figure out a way to kill me without getting caught, or help me kill myself, when I get past a certain stage.
I used to work with a woman who said she would go sit in the car in the garage with her favorite CD on and kill herself with carbon monoxide. Seems like a nice enough way to go.
My dad used to say he'd go walk into traffic because we refused to shoot him like he demanded. We always stopped him. Seeing him as he is now, I wish we had let him go for that last walk.
Honestly, there is nothing worst that I have ever encountered. With cancer, you'll either die soon or get better. With dementia, your brain rots and your body follows and it takes years.
2007-10-16 06:11:55 · answer #1 · answered by Gevera Bert 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wouldn't be too quick to want toend anything. Dementia can take many years todevelope into a state where you cannot do anything for yourself. in some ways i think losing your mind is a lot less cruel than lossing your physical abilities.
2007-10-15 11:35:53 · answer #2 · answered by tadpole 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i would spend a lot of time with my fmaily telling them how much i love them and care for them,, i would make sure all of my finances were in order made soemone power of attorney and have a living will. i would evjoy everything i could.... i would stay becuase what if the dementia is a slow process. my grandmothers started in her 70's she completely lost memory when she was 91.
2007-10-15 11:44:00 · answer #3 · answered by Marie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is more and more help for this.
I would stick it out as long as possible. Getting all the help I could.
Then who knows--this is a very hard question to answer.
2007-10-15 11:36:37 · answer #4 · answered by Fred F 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No - people should be able to go with dignity. Animals are not made to suffer like this.
2007-10-15 11:32:34 · answer #5 · answered by jet-set 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
if i knew this was going to happen to me i would drive my car over a cliff with me in it and no seat belt on
2007-10-15 11:31:45 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
i forgot..............dribble dribble
2007-10-15 11:34:36 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋