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Is everyone terrified of growing old?
Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Oct 20, 2002
>But once a threshold has been passed, then I doubt that one is aware >of one's dementia.
That's why I've made sure I won;t have to rely on myself for that, and why it's not my partner that has to make that decision- to ask hjim to end the face he loves would be unfair- to ask someone that's known me all my life, and has a respect borne from experience and length of time seems better, somehow.
>More difficult to bear would be something like motor neurone >disease, having an active mind trapped in a helpless body.
Although I lead a very active climbing/walking/skiing/
type life, a helpless body doesn't bother me so much. Unless I was so helpless I could not communicate. That would be a living Hell to me.
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Is everyone terrified of growing old?
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