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When dementia makes you wish for death

I am watching my vibrant, brilliant mother disappear into Alzheimer's and some days I wish she would just die quickly instead of this slow erasure of who she was.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Watching someone vanish while still breathing can make death feel like mercy rather than tragedy.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Anticipatory grief — losing someone before they die?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.