What would you do if you get Alzheimer’s Disease?
Would you still want to live, would you still want to live now. You will get Alzheimer’s Disease when you get older. Then what. You will forget everything in life. You will forget how to eat, and how to use the bathroom, and everything else.
That is why I need to leave this world right now, so I would know the difference from being alive and being dead. I want to experience what it is like to be dead.
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If the religious are right, killing yourself will result in eternal torment in the flames of Hell.
If the atheists are right, killing yourself will result in nothing much … just being “done.”
Have you ever been put out for surgery or dentistry? Do you remember what happened to you while you were out? I suspect death is kind of like that.
If I were diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease, I might do away with myself if I started having no joy in life. I’ve seen folks with Alzheimer’s, however, who (while they were a colossal pain in the rear to their kinfolk) seemed to have a pretty happy demeanor. That might not be so bad.
Intelligence is highly overrated as a route to happiness. Being a gorp might not be so bad.
If it turned out to be no fun, I might do something about it. Otherwise, I’d just go with the flow.
It wouldn’t bother me..Once you forget everything whats to be upset about?Once the mind doesn’t work you don’t know anything anyway.
if you experience what it is to be dead now, then you will miss out on what it means to live to your fullest extent later. It doesn’t matter if you will get alziemers later; these natural sicknesses and plight are inevitable in our lives. carpe diem
Good question, good comments.
Alzheimers is not an old age disease. That is, not EVERYONE will get it.
A LOT has to do with how you keep your body. DO you exercise every day, don’t drink, don’t smoke? Then you most likely will not get Alzheimers.
I know a couple of men; one is 85, the other 93, both weightlifters, who do not have Alzheimers.
And I saw a guy on tv who is 103 and still has a full time job. He spoke fine. Not like old people usually talk.
There is nothing to “experience” after you die. It is like going to sleep, but no dreams. And never waking up.
I am 54 and I want to live to 120. Life goes up and down.My UP’S have been more than my DOWN’S.
I hope and pray to God that I will not get this kind of disease nor any person living in this world good or bad.
It is very dreadful to think of this more than the thoughts of death.
Don’t leave this world. Do you have it?
I hope that miracle will happen to you and get your memory back. But how could you when you still know in complete sense what you are talking about? it doesn’t make sense, seriously.
Worried about Alzheimer’s?
Forget about it. (pun intended) ;)
Seriously though, you say “you will get alzheimer’d disease when you get older.” That’s not true. Not EVERY old person has alzheimer’s.
And there will be plenty of time later to experience being dead. Enjoy the life experience while you can.
i may sound cold….but if you want to to know what is to be like to be dead….then go visit a cancer hospital…and especially the patient who is at the most last stage. you will know what is it like to be dead and for that you don’t have to die even.
about the alzheimer’s disease, oh man, it would be such a boon for me to forget things, but i wish …no one to be near me that time. i wouldn’t want to be a burden to anyone.
don’t say things like “i want to die” and stuff. live life as long as it lets you live it and about experiencing death….it will come someday, anyway.
take care
:)
If I found out that I had alzheimers, I’d get married. New woman every night! sweet!
I’d also walk around my house, leaving random wads of cash laying around. That way, when I found them I would be like “oh, sweet, 5 bucks!”
I am making jokes because Alzheimers runs in my family. It just recently killed my grandfather, will slowly drain the life out of my mother, and will almost certainly will kill me. It is 100% certain that by the time I die, all of my memories will be wiped away, and I will die the way my grandfather did; senile, no understanding of where he is (nursing home) or who these nice people are who are helping him (his own children.)
So I have to remain optimistic, because pessimism leads to the lack of drive, which leads in inactivity, which only serves to accelerate the disease. Best live for the moment, because tomorrow I could get hit by a car and killed. And if I don’t then there is nothing that I can do to stop the onslaught of Alzheimers besides accept it.
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and push for stem cell research ;)
I wouldn’t remember a thing and I wouldn’t want to die with all the research they’re doing to help cure it.
I have already made some plans, including the purchase of long term care insurance. I support your right to chose a death with dignity; though I am not talking about suicide so much as the willingness to stop fighting for a life that is already over. I watched my mother die of Alzheimer’s. In the beginning, when the first symptoms began to appear, it was kinda of sweet. We got to see her as she had been as a child, before the pains and pressures of adult life had distorted the essential her. In that way I am grateful for the opportunity to know that woman.
However, the end is hateful. She basically starved to death, even though she was still taking in food, as her body stopped processing it. She was below 90 pounds at death. She had no lucid moments in the last three years, all she knew was that she had people who loved her with her as much as possible. But she had 11 children, most of whom spent as much time as possible with her in the final years.
I have no children, no one to surround me with that kind of attention, so I might be more inclined to let go of life sooner rather than later.