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As the story relates to a dementia sufferer, and having witnessed my mum's decline before she passed away, then I wouldn't want to end my days that way, but the biggest problem would be when?

My mum's dementia accelerated when she broke her hip, it's a known cause to accelerate dementia, and she was a different person on my first visit to see her in hospital, it was like someone had flicked a switch. She only lasted another 7 months, a bout of pneumonia was the final straw, even though she recovered from that.

She wasn't compos mentis to say that's enough, and before that, she would have carried on in her own world?

I'd just like to fall asleep and not wake up, rather than go through that.

A colleagues dad was in the same care home, he's also got dementia, but he's still going strong, and causing mayhem because he's such a big bloke, and he's been there 2 years or more.

Again when is the right time?