A moral question

desert dude said:

Is it moral to put an Alzheimer's sufferer out on the streets? Maybe it is better to keep them incarcerated?

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Good point. I started to think about that after I posted this. I guess if they had family to take care of them. But then they just become a burden on someone else. Looks like gassing them might be the best answer.

I don't think I'd want them just released onto the streets. Maybe put them in a mental hospital, or somewhere with supervision, since they are in jail for being violent. But as a human being, I would feel bad for them sitting in jail if they honestly couldn't remember.

I use to have a neighbor that was about 80 that had Alzheimer's. She would stand outside a lot by the road, and when asked why she would say she was waiting for the bus. She kept thinking she was a little girl waiting to go to school, felt so bad for her.

So for someone like that, I think it would be cruel to keep them in prison.

Alzheimer's is much more than just memory loss, it is loss of, and damage to brain matter. A patients are not just absent-minded and cheerful, they are very ill. I know this because my mother died at age 84 and suffered from it. I would not wish Alzheimer's on anybody.