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<blockquote data-quote="Bruce_ma gooshvili" data-source="post: 1086208" data-attributes="member: 74121"><p>I consider dementia as the single most inhumane thing we can subject sportsmen to and the single most unkind thing we can force people to endure in their last months and years. It is not simply the loss of your memory, your personality and your dignity. It can be even worse than those terrors. </p><p></p><p>It is like with drunks. You get good drunks and you get bad drunks. With dementia you get those whose every interaction and experience can be neutral to positive, living in a bizarre rose tinted bubble of complete ignorance. But you also get those who are terrified, confused and frankly traumatised in every waking moment. </p><p></p><p>I had a great grandfather who spent his days terrified of going to bed because he felt he was experiencing his bed taking off and flying around and he was terrified of falling off the side of the bed to his death. His days were spent fixated in quiet dread on what would await him that night. </p><p></p><p>Damaged minds break in the most unpredictable of ways and whatever sport (and society) can do to help prevent this sort of needless suffering should be the absolute priority. What a horrible horrible experience for Thompson and his family. Hopefully his speaking out on the matter helps persuade a few in the UK to consider how we help prevent dementia and what are humane options for terminal dementia sufferers.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bruce_ma gooshvili, post: 1086208, member: 74121"] I consider dementia as the single most inhumane thing we can subject sportsmen to and the single most unkind thing we can force people to endure in their last months and years. It is not simply the loss of your memory, your personality and your dignity. It can be even worse than those terrors. It is like with drunks. You get good drunks and you get bad drunks. With dementia you get those whose every interaction and experience can be neutral to positive, living in a bizarre rose tinted bubble of complete ignorance. But you also get those who are terrified, confused and frankly traumatised in every waking moment. I had a great grandfather who spent his days terrified of going to bed because he felt he was experiencing his bed taking off and flying around and he was terrified of falling off the side of the bed to his death. His days were spent fixated in quiet dread on what would await him that night. Damaged minds break in the most unpredictable of ways and whatever sport (and society) can do to help prevent this sort of needless suffering should be the absolute priority. What a horrible horrible experience for Thompson and his family. Hopefully his speaking out on the matter helps persuade a few in the UK to consider how we help prevent dementia and what are humane options for terminal dementia sufferers. [/QUOTE]
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