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Re:The Comforting Fictions of Dementia Care by melling on Monday October 08, 2018 @10:25PM (#18172900)
Personally, I’m hoping we put more of an effort behind solving the problem so people won’t need to commit suicide.

Sometime in the 21th century we’ll come up with some sort of treatment. It’s just a matter of which decade.

Maybe we should increase funding now?

https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/392585-heres-why-we-s...

There are 50 million people with Alzheimer’s and that number will increase significantly:

https://www.alz.co.uk/research/statistics

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Re:The Comforting Fictions of Dementia Care by jiveturkey on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @02:29PM (#18178552)
Solving the problem? You mean immortality?
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Re:The Comforting Fictions of Dementia Care by hycaria on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @08:12AM (#18175235)
Why ? Assisted suicide is already feasible, cost is low, and makes room for the (sadly literal) billions of people waiting for a better life.

It doesn't sound very moral to me to be willing to spend tens of thousands from insurances and such (so not exactly one's money) on individual treatment, just to get a bit more time for myself as an elderly person.

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