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  • 22-11-2014 10:04pm
    #1
    Charprr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23 ✭


    If you were a person that was relatively healthy, drank moderately, didn't smoke took some exercise, and was diagnosed with early stages Alzheimer's, would you completely change your lifestyle to a completely unhealthy one to accelerate your demise?


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  • #2
    echo beach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,252 ✭✭✭echo beach


    An interesting and hopefully hypothetical question but the logic is flawed. Your lifespan isn't directly related to your lifestyle. There are too many variables and most of them, like your family history, can't be changed.
    Some people with an 'unhealthy' lifestyle live long lives (you must have heard of the heavy smoker who lived to be 95, every smoker knows him) while others who live a 'healthy' lifestyle die young.


  • #3
    exgp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 126 ✭✭exgp


    Charprr wrote: »
    If you were a person that was relatively healthy, drank moderately, didn't smoke took some exercise, and was diagnosed with early stages Alzheimer's, would you completely change your lifestyle to a completely unhealthy one to accelerate your demise?

    No.


  • #4
    January
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,862 ✭✭✭✭January


    Father in law was one of the healthiest men I knew, never drank smoked etc... exercised, lived life. He took two devastating strokes within 7 months of each other and basically has no cognitive function whatsoever now.

    If you're healthy there are no guarantee's that you'll stay healthy.

    If you're not healthy you could lead the longest life ever.


  • #5
    rosiem
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 273 ✭✭rosiem


    My mother ate healthily was super fit.barely drank never smoked got alzheimers in her 50s a cruel and horrible disease. She passed away this year after 13 years with it. To see what It did to her and us who had to watch it I would accelerate my death anyway possible if diagnosed


  • #6
    Charprr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23 ✭Charprr


    rosiem wrote: »
    My mother ate healthily was super fit.barely drank never smoked got alzheimers in her 50s a cruel and horrible disease. She passed away this year after 13 years with it. To see what It did to her and us who had to watch it I would accelerate my death anyway possible if diagnosed

    Im in a similar circumstances, pre-diagnoses my Dad was very agreesive and was suicidal. He is in a home now and is content, he just sits there everyday and he just deteriates. I know I don't want that,


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  • #7
    rosiem
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 273 ✭✭rosiem


    Charprr I know it's tough to watch after a certain point it's harder on you than them as they are no longer aware of the situation they are in.


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