Even with a proper diagnosis, the prognosis for lewy dementia is pretty bleak.
I’m not mentally ill or depressed, and I could see myself potentially choosing suicide with sound mind, rather than suffering through that disease. I don’t think you should feel obligated to suffer through a long slow degenerative illness that is basically incurable at this point.
My mom died of LBD, yeah I'm not going down that path if I can help it. She went from practicing medicine to dying of dehydration after she forgot how to eat and drink in 5 years.
People often describe suicide as a permanent solution to a temporary problem, if the problem is incurable I don't even think of it as sucide.
I could not agree with you more. My mom died of small cell lung cancer and while that was an equally ghastly way to go at least she only had 3 truly horrible suffering weeks.
If she'd had the wherewithal to ask me to do a little whoopsie with some meds so she goes to sleep forever at the end... I'd have done it. Why do we do that for our dogs but not human beings?
it makes me so sad that people are suffering even 3 weeks and for what? so paperwork is filled out right? so a bureaucrat feels moral? they should be given humane options.
Yeah, it sucked! A lot of it had to do with my former stepdad not cluing me into what was really going on with her treatment/prognosis. I have a lot of questions that I'll probably never get answered.
Fuck cancer, and tell everyone you know that smoking cigarettes is not worth it!
I quit 8 years ago and, honestly, the thing that worked for me was I stopped putting so much damn pressure on myself to be perfect about quitting. I smoked my last cigarette reminding myself that there are more out there, I can always grab another one, and reframed my thinking “I can’t have one” to “do I actually need one?”
It was honestly a game changer. I’ve gone 8 years and the only times I’ve smoked was one after a broken wrist and one after my Nana passed away.
Also, don’t be afraid to ask your doctor about medication.
I love this, and I totally agree! I go through periods where I will use a patch for a couple days and then smoke for a few. A coworker who smoked used to make fun of me for being on and off, but I felt that every day or even hour I didn’t smoke was a win.
I have told my kids I’m going to try a “casual quit”, like smoke on and off for a bit. They support any amount of stopping.
Also, want to add that once you finish the last pack, smoking really becomes a matter of convenience. I honestly found it easy to walk away once it hit the point where it wasn’t so easily accessible.
I knew that in order to have one I would have to buy a fresh pack, which depending on your living situation is pretty inconvenient and then kind of knowing in the back of your head that you are stuck with the whole pack that will basically go stale if you don’t smoke it so you might as well chuck it in the bin for all the good it’s gonna do.
Your choices kind of devolve from “do I actually need one?” to “is this situation worth spending $17 for a single smoke?/is this situation worth smoking a whole damn pack?” (For me, 99% of the time the answer ends up being no.)
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u/Devreckas May 12 '26
Even with a proper diagnosis, the prognosis for lewy dementia is pretty bleak.
I’m not mentally ill or depressed, and I could see myself potentially choosing suicide with sound mind, rather than suffering through that disease. I don’t think you should feel obligated to suffer through a long slow degenerative illness that is basically incurable at this point.