> I know that when I have Alzheimer or ALS out similar stuff I will commit suicide, quickly.
One of the common features of dementia is that you don't know you have it. It is just that everyone else around you seems to start behaving weirdly while your own reality is unchanged. It is both a blessing and a curse, but it does mean you may not ever have that moment where you can make the choice.
My mother has been bedridden for a year, completely helpless, on a daily drug regimen, recognizes nobody, would absolutely not want to continue living in this state, but is no longer capable of making that choice and so will stay in this condition for potentially several more years until she finally dies. It's a horrific final chapter.
I thought about that too, and was hoping for a diagnosis before I am incapacitated.
I actually wondered about a dead man switch, where poison would be released into the bloodstream if I do not acknowledge that I am fine. This would also manzge comas and lock-in. Technically it is quite complicated though.
I pity you, and this is exactly the reason I want to quickly end it so that my family does not suffer for a long time.
The Netherlands has a legal death man switch. You're able to consent to, and set up euthanasia early on in your diagnosis with the intention to die at a later date when it gets worse.
I don't know the exact numbers but in practice it's basically worthless because the doctors at hand end up in an ethical catch 22. This person that was sound of mind might have consented to euthanasia, but now they're not sound of mind anymore.
This is a weird catch 22 TBH. If someone makes anticipated choices because they will not be able to do that later and this is denied, then why allowing this in the first place.
It looks like a botched law, same as we have in France (and I thought we were the worst - not even because we do not have the laws but because the law is completely hypocritical)