Have you ever watched 1000 ways to die?

Dementia. Particularly the whole nursing home stretch of it.

slowly.

^(I’ve been dying for 45 years now.)

Anal Impalement

Dementia, and Alzheimers. It’s a horrible, painful way to die. It isn’t just your mind that goes. Eventually your entire body forgets how to work, and it’s just… devastating to watch from start to finish.

I used to work as a caregiver for people with these diseases, and let me tell you what… it is a suffering like no other. Your entire world falls apart around you. One day you’re ( in your mind ) 36 and waiting for your kids to get home from school, and the next thing you know you’re down the halls of your retirement facility and walking confused into someone else’s apartment because ten years ago you lived there, but moved to a different apartment.

Those kinds of diseases make me think that not having “Right to Life” everywhere is cruel. I want to be able to go on my terms, not defecating myself while struggling to breathe because my body forgot how to work my lungs – on life support because my family just can’t let me go. I get it, I’ve loved my patients and their families while I did it. I remember the agony of finding out they finally had to pull the plug, but it’s so hard.