Do people who are in late stage dementia still aware of the concept of death?

wabafee@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world – 91 points –

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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No doubt in my mind I'd kill myself.

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.