Life

Read a good article on living with dementia and caring for a parent as they fall victim to the disease. It triggered a lot of flashbacks as I went through this with both my dad and my mom. I can now recall that my life from 2002 to 2011 I was the caregiver. In my dad's case he suffered from a rare form of Kreutzfeld Jacob disease. I watched him go very fast. My mother slowly went away over a period of 9 years. No. If i ever find myself going down that path I may find a way to end it quickly.

Coma

I spent some time in a coma. It is a weird state to be in as it was to me a time when I did not exist. It was lost time. A blank part of my whole life. Dying (I've done that) is different as you still have awareness of your body and being. In a coma you find a total blank. In fact it took a bit of work to bring out memory of the day before because as the doctor explained, without REM sleep memory is not placed in the mind where it can be brought back or recalled. I wonder what it would be like to die while in a coma. Would you have the same sensations that you experience when you die in a conscious state?