(Genuine Q): Why are people - or even just HN readers - really so interested in living longer?
Both my father and my father-in-law have dementia.
My father's dementia is fairly advanced (he doesn't know who I am and hasn't for a while, there are times where he doesn't know who my mother is) although he's still living at home.
My father-in-law's dementia is less advanced although he's much more frail as he was diagnosed with bladder cancer, had it removed, so has ended up with the whole tubes+bags "solution".
My OH and I were discussing this for the Nth time last week.
Apologies for being blunt, but our current perspective is this: try make your life count, and hope for it to end cleanly. Via Dignitas, if necessary.
There is no way I want to see out my final years in the way that my father or my father-in-law are doing now :(
Both my father and my father-in-law have dementia.
My father's dementia is fairly advanced (he doesn't know who I am and hasn't for a while, there are times where he doesn't know who my mother is) although he's still living at home.
My father-in-law's dementia is less advanced although he's much more frail as he was diagnosed with bladder cancer, had it removed, so has ended up with the whole tubes+bags "solution".
My OH and I were discussing this for the Nth time last week.
Apologies for being blunt, but our current perspective is this: try make your life count, and hope for it to end cleanly. Via Dignitas, if necessary.
There is no way I want to see out my final years in the way that my father or my father-in-law are doing now :(