Do people who are in late stage dementia still aware of the concept of death?
Do people who are in late stage dementia still aware of the concept of death?
Seeing famous actors e.g. Robin Williams, and Bruce Willis suffering from dementia made me wonder in later stages do the people still aware of death? We all know death because we know the process we learn from or it's just that we instinctively aware of it?
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Dementia isn't stupidity.
Dementia is (among other symptoms) a loss of memory. The loss starts with the latest, newest memories, and proceeds to the older memories.
No doubt in my mind I'd kill myself.
That gets rid of all the memories.
Everyone says this. No one does this.
When we’re at the hospital getting our diagnoses, let’s make sure we document how we will talk ourselves into tolerating that bullshit and how we decide to die on nature’s terms instead of our own.
Robin Williams did. I'm sure other people do as well.
Is memory the same as knowledge or this two can be different? In terms of my question, Is the concept of death a knowledge or a human instinct?
No. This is besides the question. It has no relation to dementia.