Gnu...first of all I am sorry about your diagnoses. I had, he has passed on, a relative with the dry form of the disease. Hopefully, some progress has been made in the recent past.

But there could be a different way to look at this end of life counseling. A customer of mine told me about her father in law, 85 years old, that has full blown Alzheimer's...recently he had a heart attack. When the paramedics came they asked what were his resuscitation wishes. Unfortunately, he and his wife had written their wishes when they were 45 and never updated them.

The wishes were for full resuscitation...so the paramedics rived him. As of last week he was still in ICU in critical condition. Her husband has contacted a lawyer to see if anything can be done but no...the father was of sound mind when he setup his wishes so nothing can be done. The mother also has Alzheimer's and has the same request for full recuscitation. Perhaps if someone had talked to these people at some point during the last 40 years they might have changed things.

This clause may not be a sinister as you all think.