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Sean Connery has Alzheimer’s disease
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This sucks one of my favorite actors growing up as I was a huge Bond fan
Fortunate to not ever have anyone close to me with this disease but I've had friends who have gone through it with loved ones and sounds shocking. A combination of the sadness of them not knowing who you are along with how scared you know they are must feel heart wrenching.0 -
Chareth Cutestory wrote: »Sad news if it's true. I find it strange that Michael Caine would take it upon himself to release this news during an interview with a German newspaper. He said himself (supposedly) that only family and close friends were aware of Connery's illness so why did he think it was his place to tell people. Surely it would be up to the family if they wanted to make the news public. I have my doubts about the validity of the story.
Anyway if it does turn out to be true I feel for his family. My mum has it and she's in her 50s. Hearing the diagnosis is awful because all hope just goes out the window. You know that there isn't a single thing you can do about it. It gets me down sometimes because it's such an awful disease, and it makes me sad to think of the relationship I'll never have with my mother as an adult as she was diagnosed when I was in college. One of the (many!) bad things is how her behavior has changed and how she'll say and do things now that she would never have dreamed of saying before she became ill. Alzheimer's strips people of their dignity and it's very sad to watch. It's mortifying sometimes but I do find myself laughing about it from time to time. Sure you'd lose your own mind if you didn't
Sorry to hear about your own circumstances. I've no insight into the condition but it's sad to think of a relatively young woman stricken with this horrible illness.0 -
As strange as it sounds, I'd rather die from any form of cancer than Alzheimer's or any other dementia related disease
I think if I was aware that it was coming and only going to get worse, I'd apply for euthanasia in a country that allows it. Having my family remember me as a delirious mental case would kill me inside
I'd have to agree - or worse, a burden to my family and loved ones. Or the look of awkwardness as they don't quite know how to react to you anymore.
My "uncle" (actually the husband of my mother's best friend) had always worked and been active and the poor man suffered a stroke and couldn't even speak. He hung himself not too long afterwards
When my time is up, a quick death please.0 -
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Delighted to hear he's alright! 
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