I think we've already seen it, at the polls, in life"style" choices... http://ca.news.yahoo.com/dementia-epidemic-looms-135-million-sufferers-seen-2050-000429...

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Sincerely,

Hobie

...seriously, it is an awful thing. One of my best friends and pickin' pals has early-onset Alzheimer's (age 52) and is deteriorating rapidly. An AWFUL thing.

But I forgot what it was.

...my brother-in-law's wife's father died of it and we've seen several other instances in younger and younger folks. It was not my intent to make light of it.

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Sincerely,

Hobie

She was a mean one... and I miss her.

...neither was that my intent.

pillow, if/when I get there...No, not quite yet.

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Of the Troops & For the Troops

6'5" 220 and in great physical shape...but he's going downhill fast and it really really sucks watching it. There was a time I thought cancer was the worst killer and now I'm not so sure.

M

suddenly -- say -- in a duck blind, or pulling a deer, or riding past my skills on a steep downhill -- or... y'gitcha idee. In my sleep would be just dandy, too. As long as you're not the driver of the vehicle....badda boomp.

I saw both parents thru that ordeal, and I'd have given anything, had they died when their mind went.

No answers, here,