British actress Jean Marsh died today. She starred as "Rose" in the

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28. Dementia is a terrible way to die with the brain rotting away leaving once was a unique human

being just a husk and shell of what they once were.
My mother spent the last 15 years of her life in a nursing home, slowly dying of Alzheimer's.
When her physical body finally shut down, her mind was long gone.
But we judge what they are experiencing from our own perspective. Do we really know?
Because nobody afflicted with dementia has ever recovered to tell us what they had experienced.

I once visited my mother and she was sleeping and I decided to let her sleep because I thought that maybe she was in a better place in her dreams so why awake her to a confusing reality? Besides, at that point I was a stranger to her.