Seeing famous actors e.g. Robin Williams, and Bruce Willis suffering from dementia made me wonder in later stages do the people still aware of death? We all know death because we know the process we learn from or it’s just that we instinctively aware of it?
I suspect you don’t aware.
I’m having a strange moment on Lemmy right now. Just like you, I was bothered that the title of this post was grammatically weird so I made a comment similar to the one you made, but yesterday I noticed my comment was getting some downvotes so I deleted it.
Then I woke up this morning to find this in my inbox and I thought, “oh great what did I do now?” so I went to click on it and my comment is gone Because I’ve already deleted it,
so how did this person respond to my comment that I deleted?
I’m wondering, can everyone still see that comment I deleted but me?
I vaguely remember it, it was something like “do you are like cheese?”
can everyone still see that comment I made yesterday even after I deleted it?
I think it’s a quirk of federation; the comment may have propagated to other instances and been replied to by other users on that instance before the deletion propagated.
One way to circumvent this issue is to not delete your comments just because they get a few downvotes. You’re not getting paid for Lemmy Karma.
When a person is truly late stage dementia they’re barely more than a vegetable.
yeah it is the worst. I so hope assisted suicide becomes an option if I ever get there. Honestly I would like to have a list to determine when its to happen. Can’t walk plus can’t eat solid food while having alzheimers. Worst thing about the disease is when it gets bad enough you are no longer competent to make the call.
It already is an option in certain states in the US and I think parts of Europe.
Dementia isn’t stupidity.
Dementia is (among other symptoms) a loss of memory. The loss starts with the latest, newest memories, and proceeds to the older memories.
Is memory the same as knowledge or this two can be different? In terms of my question, Is the concept of death a knowledge or a human instinct?
Everyone says this. No one does this.
When we’re at the hospital getting our diagnoses, let’s make sure we document how we will talk ourselves into tolerating that bullshit and how we decide to die on nature’s terms instead of our own.
Late stage dementia can’t even feed themselves, so no.
