troupo 3 days ago

Neither you nor I know what the person with dementia is suffering from.

What you call "comforting" is leaving a helpless prison in the wilderness to succumb to thirst, hunger or predators

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  • kranke155 3 days ago

    Thirst and hunger. They’re meant to die a peaceful death so pretty sure no predators involved.

    Go to a dementia facility and hang out with your those people. You will see suffering.

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    • troupo 3 days ago

      My grandmother died of dementia.

      If you think that "cannot feed themselves" is when a person is already completely gone and it's okay to "leave them under a tree to die of hunger and thirst", I've got news for you.

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      • kranke155 a day ago

        My mother has dementia, so maybe dementia just has different expressions and you shouldn’t generalise ?

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lukas099 3 days ago

If I was starving to death, the acute sensation of hunger would override everything else in my mind.

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  • AlexeyBrin 3 days ago

    Unfortunately someone with advanced dementia does not know if she has eaten or not. Most of the time there will be no eating, unless someone else puts food in your mouth.

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    • hrimfaxi 3 days ago

      That wasn't the case with my father, who had a pretty good appetite up until his last few weeks.

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      • leakycap 3 days ago

        I'm sorry for your first-hand experience, but I also need to remind you that 1 first-hand experience does not translate well to the overall population of people experiencing dementia.

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      • kranke155 3 days ago

        That’s literally what it says in the story though. That it would only happen if the person won’t eat by themselves.

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  • kranke155 3 days ago

    You ever hung out with someone in deep dementia ?

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  • jrs235 3 days ago

    But seriously, how do you know that?

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