alt Hacker Newspfft just illusion of control theatre for people who are scared of death. Throw in some opportunists exploiting it. Just watch what happens if there are unintended side effects. Its okay to die guys. Everyone does it. The sky doesnt fall.
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Dementia is a terrible way to go, both for the people who get it and for their loved ones who are with them.
One day, my grandmother forgot English when my uncle was visiting and kept speaking in her native tongue and got so mad because nobody understood her.
That was one of the few amusing anecdotes from get decline. The rest are just depressing.
Watching your father cry because he went to the hardware store and couldn't remember how to get home and had to ask an employee to call his family for him, for example, was particularly tough.
If everyone had this attitude we'd still be dying of tuberculosis and countless other diseases.
As much as I love this forum, the one thing I learned to never say is that it's normal and even good that people die (usually on threads about people trying to live forever).
I've never received such hateful responses on any other topic.