Something I’ve heard repeatedly from older, men-
tally healthy people is that they wouldn’t want to keep living if they had severe dementia.
Then there are two end-of-life narratives that follow: their life ends without ever having
severe dementia, or they get severe dementia and live with it for an indefinite amount of
time until they die (usually not directly from dementia). We need to build the business
and legal processes to enable the end-of-life choice to not live with severe dementia.