“How do people actually die from Alzheimer?”
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One point to consider is that with all the modern medical technology, extending life is common. The most common age related causes of death have been cured to some extent. Artificial hearts, kidneys, livers extend lives for decades. Rx Medications decrease numerous diseases and extend lives from conditions that would’ve otherwise been terminal including several heart diseases, diabetes, cancers and other organ failures. Alzheimer’s is more prevalent now only because these other more common causes of death have been medically lessened. Bottom line- we have to die of something… the human body is evolutionary only built to survive 100 years or less. Since modern medicine has extended the life expectancy of these above organs and conditions , the brain is obviously the last organ to deteriorate and one we are unable to currently repair or transplant. So it’s only logical that deterioration of our brain IE: Alzheimer’s is now a more leading cause of death.
It’s macabre to acknowledge – but our medical advances in extending life has equally created the sad and lengthy process of death known as dementia. The days of dying in your sleep or having fatal heart attack or quick illnesses from which we don’t recover are much less common now… so the mercilessly slow and cruel suffering of our brain deteriorating is now a more common cause of death.
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