ITT: famous people playing videogames

A doctor's job is to make sure your body maintains homeostasis and functional. Past that, you're on your own, b***h

a doctor's job is to provide care, not to save lives at all costs
and remember, we're not talking about people with physical disabilities here (although pretty much all forms of dementia have significant physical debilitation that go along with it eventually) but people who's mind is actively disintegrating

the people you'd tell them that need them? the inevitable truth is they'll forget who those people are, they'll forget who they themselves are, they'll lose everything, left in a constant state of confusion because nothing makes sense, no sense of time or space by the end

there's no cure, there's only delaying the inevitable and don't think that dementia makes you blissfully unaware, there's moment of lucidity where they actively realize just how much they've lost and in the worst cases know that the moment of lucidity is temporary

ever seen someone desperately try to hold onto a few memories only to lose them a weeks or months later? It's horrifying

People with dementia should be allowed to set up conditional euthanasia, it should be 100% legal for someone to say they want to die if they no longer remember who their husband/wife of 50 god damn years is

you can cure depression you moron, you can't cure dementia, there is no getting better, only worse
There is no way to make their lives less tragedy, that's the entire point, they're going through the most horrifying hell imaginable, having their mind, their personality, the very essence of what makes someone human slowly stripped away from them
whatever joy you give them is literally meaningless because they'll forget those moments of joy, faster and faster
whatever is left in the bed when their bodies finally give up is no longer that person, that person was slowly tortured to death

I would suggest you go volunteer at a care facility to see what it's like, it's eye-opening

>it's time to hang it up in one of those lucid moments.
From what I have read they do happen right before your brain dies, as some sort of last chance to say goodbye and they also do not always happen. So how could even the person make that decision when it's already over?
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it's a slow process, it's not like you can't do anything before you reach the late stage. it's like saying you will have a nice day once you get old because your gonna die soon, seems moronic to me

please have a nice day ASAP

NTA but worked as a nurse at a psychiatric ward in a nursing home (which is pretty much every ward in a nursing home nowadays as people tend to live home unless it is absolutely neccessary) and I've made up my mind to kill myself if I ever get any demetia diagnosis.
It's agony. Pure hell. It's not just a general forgetfulness. It's a complete failure of the mental systems that make you be (you). Most people are stuck in a state of perpetual anxiety, not knowing where they are or why they ended up there. Over time this usually leads to full on delirium. And then after years of being scared out of your mind every day, loss of motor function, loss of speech and years of being a near catatonic diaper-wearing lump of flesh that gets visits once a week if you're lucky. And god be willing we can keep you alive in this state for a decade.
If you'd seen what I've seen, you'd be on the euthanasia bandwagon too.

>I presume is what leads them to sense of no purpose and helps portray suicide as the only option left
No bro, it's the fact that even as your body continues to live, your mind is dying. Every day another piece of what makes you you dies and there's nothing you can do about it. It's like death by slow torture. It's no wonder they'd want to just get it over with. And no, nobody "needs" them, their family would want them, but they'd want them to be healthy and happy, not slowly losing their mind in agony with no hope of recovery. When the moments their loved one just isn't there outnumber moments of lucidity, the affected person rightly decides it's time to hang it up in one of those lucid moments.

Would you rather I kill you right away or can I torture you first?

People never lived to be old enough to deal with dementia before the modern age.

>never lived to be old enough
yep the disease suddenly appeared out of nowhere in 21st century, good point I lost

people killed themselves literally all the god damn time in societies of old
Romans had a well documented culture of suicide, religions such as Jains or even the christian Cathars had it as a tenet people could decide they wanted to stop living

it wasn't something that was always documented that much, but old people choosing to pass away is ridiculously common in human history
And hell it's not even just humans, other intelligent animals do it too, elephants voluntarily remove themselves from the herd to die of exposure, whales intentionally drown themselves

the fact that animals do it doesn't mean it's normal, if bonobo monkeys have intersex orgies it doesn't mean it's normal, this logic is moronic unless you literally see no difference between animal and human

And that was a good thing because they stepped up and gave more value to human life, as it should have

So people weren't worthy of death back then? It actually meant that everybody even the lowest of the low could make their life worthy of something and that human being is something more than just bunch of cells looking for passing their DNA onto other specimen

id like to see the source

dude, the upper class of those societies offed themselves because of prestige loss or to avoid you know capture & torture at the hands of their enemies, it had nothing to do with "i'm depressed therefore gov must give me the final solution"

In the olden days old people would go out into the wilderness to die rather than burden the tribe

you misread his post, he wasn't asking about the film in the gif.
However, I am curious now. What's the name of the movie?

thanks, I'll give it a watch

I showed that picture to my gf & her immediate response was "omg me"

Because both the internet and society have become incredibly cynical and jaded, and if you're at least 30 or so years old you remember before when even this place, jaded as its always been, was comparatively in bloomer 24/7 mode compared to the average person now. normalgays ruined the internet and the internet ruined normalgays

Actually in disbelief after checking. I don't know if i have it in me to try and re-read any of this to catch up.

we don't call it swastika, we call it hakenkreuz

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Keep trying.

Not buttmangled.