Reply #1: Having lived through Alzheimer's with my father and simultaneously with my mother's

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vascular dementia, I am deeply concerned about this issue. There has got to be a way to actively end our own lives before we slide over into helplessness. I'm especially worried about dementia. It can come on you before you have the inspiration, or the courage, to commit suicide. Then, if you haven't done it, you leave your relatives to take care of you without any help or guidance from you. You have checked out.

We need a way to specify assisted suicide at a certain determined point. It has to be determined before it happens.

The toll on families' mental health, physical health, and financial stability is too great to let this go on the way it is.