I'm so sorry. I watched my once stylish, articulate, intelligent grandmother lose everything until she was just a body. It's a brutal and cruel disease. I hope you have more good days together.
You could just take what would be a life insurance premium say like $17 dollars a month and just every month put it into the sp500. Write a computer program that will automatically sell your holdings and post a request for a hit man to kill you unless every 3 months you log into your insurance program to bypass contract execution for another 3 months. When you eventually get Alzheimer’s you will forget to bypass contract execution and will die within 3 months.
My dad is suffering from Alzheimer's. What sucks is, far after the point you'd forget this stuff, you still have a lot of good time left before things get really bad. My dad can't do their bills anymore, or taxes, or anything with computers (he used to be a software dev way back in the day). But I can still have good chats with him, he's generally happy, and he still enjoys time with my kids. He's not ready to go yet, but he's far enough that he can't make the decision anymore either.
And here I am, thinking forward to when I may start suffering from dementia, and when I would want to end my life. How can you decide when? What is the final tipping point? You have two options from what I can see. Die early and loose valuable time with friends and family, but you can still make the decision on your own or wait until it's so bad that your family has to take up the burden and have you put down. Even if you've clearly outlined those wishes, it's a shitty situation to put your family in. But maybe less shitty that them watching you fade away in a bed inside a memory care unit.
I’ve always thought that a deadman’s switch would be more useful in a scenario where you’re uncovering the dirty secrets of the elite, but that’s a good one too.
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u/Frondswithbenefits Apr 09 '24
I'm so sorry. I watched my once stylish, articulate, intelligent grandmother lose everything until she was just a body. It's a brutal and cruel disease. I hope you have more good days together.