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Not insane at all. I’m with you on this. I grew up with my grandma, who lived with my family. She was a cool, collected, highly stable person who worked her whole life as a doctor. I guess this sounds really heavy thinking about it now, but it didn’t seem so at the time when she told me once when I was a teenager that if she ever had dimentia that I should kill her somehow. She was of course to some extent trying to articulate her feelings on the severity of the condition, but I did get the concrete sense that she was also being literally serious. Fortunately she got cancer around the same time she got dimentia, because I’m not sure I could have done it.


I have told my partner that if I get dementia, I would like to die. I didn't say he should kill me, but I hope that he wouldn't have to.


In the end stages, the body looses the ability to regulate temperature.

Strange idea though, can one speed up dementia? Accelerate it?


There are a lot more humane methods to kill.


Jesus, thank you haha.




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