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I watched two close relatives die of dementia after long periods with the disease. They turned not merely into shells of themselves but into violent, nasty, angry, monsters who disgraced both memories of them in the eyes of others and the dignified and honorable lives they had led.
The great tragedy is that you don’t feel your own memory slipping away until you’re past the point where you can truly choose to die (you do feel it, and many dementia patients have early moments of extreme frustration as they feel their short and medium term memories vanishing). If I should be unlucky enough to have the same condition in my old age, should I make it that long, I want to be killed at the point shortly after my memory goes and I forget the everyday things necessary to lead life well. I want to be killed, I want it to be fast.
All I want is some kind of process whereby I can sign over my life to some moderately respectable panel of doctors who can choose to have me killed at that point. I am willing to accept the risks, I have seen too much to want otherwise.
There’s r9k for that and plenty of overlap between posters on all major 4chan boards.
My plan, in younger years, was twenty pounds of dynamite on a 24-hour timer, secreted in the mattress under my pillow. The day I grew too far gone to remember to reset the timer would be the end of my troubles.
The people in the apartment next door must love you.
Maybe buy them a gigantic, ornate gong and insist they keep it just against that wall.
Solutions! ...But actually the plan was to be living as a hermit in the country by that point. I have a family now, so other solutions will need to be found. Maybe I'll take up wingsuiting.
Had a physical chemistry prof that tried wingsuiting once, and after that one time settled for watching videos of others. Hearing "Sail" by AWOLNATION always reminds me of him talking about Dwain Weston.
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