I often feel guilty for not giving much attention to dementia on this website… My grandmother suffered from Alzheimer’s for 12 years (perhaps longer) until she died.. I was robbed of her love for much of my life.. I hate Alzheimer’s and all of its effects. The notion of the brain deteriorating and turning to mush is sickening.. it takes life without taking breath, and it becomes a long battle.
And what will we do about it? Will we ‘pull the plug on granny’ as NEWSWEEK advised us to do? Will health care officials start to purge us of the ‘lesser’ of the people? Will eugenics come back?
I fear that.
Autism is rising.
Alzheimer’s is too.
And if we do not treat people who have these afflictions with respect and love, we will do no justice to their souls .. if we make the wrong choices with the increased number of people who suffer from the breakdown of the mind, we will be Godless and immoral.
And if we choose to ignore their plight? Well shame on us. Suffer the children, and suffer the parents.
It’s easy to pull the plug on GRANNY.
But it sure as hell ain’t right.
