Well put
And I share the same deepest fear. Senility has got to be the worst way to go, due to the way it chips away at a person's identity and memories piece by piece.
( Cloudane, Sat 10 Jul 2010, 18:55, 1 reply)

While senility is scary to watch
I suspect that those going through it are not aware. That is about the only comfort I find in it.
(M61A1 CUPID- STUNTS, Sun 11 Jul 2010, 1:22, closed)

The thing that seems most horrible to me about it
is that you're bound to be aware of it in the early stages, as it encroaches, and you can watch your mind going. Even the terminally demented do have moments of clarity, sometimes enough to recognise that life is now totally alien to them. :S
(Falstaff's Spiritual Successor, Sun 11 Jul 2010, 10:33, closed)

I once worked with people with advanced Alzheimers
Although I had no way of knowing, I always felt that these people were all there, just 'locked out' from the ROTW somehow.

As we get older, we are increasingly encouraged by life to 'let go' of all sorts of things. I hope, by the time I'm 150 or so, I feel ready to let go, and see what happen's next.

Death to me doesn't mean a sudden abrupt halt to my personality, similar to a light bulb being switched off. Nothing in the universe (except a light bulb) does that, so why should I?
(CADmonkey rollllllllled another one, just like the other one, Sun 11 Jul 2010, 12:40, closed)