Damn. I can barely read TFA. I mean, we'll all eventually face some sort of dementia. And death, of course. But when you're 70, it's much more immediate.<p>There were times in my life when I didn't do much except drift, play with drugs, seek sex, put my life at risk, etc, etc. All the serious stuff could wait. And WTF, there'd be global nuclear war any day now. So why bother?<p>Now I'm retired. There's no need to work, so all I do is putter. And my likely future is so short that there's no point in long-term planning. Also, and it's quite amusing, I don't need drugs to space out. I need them to stay focused. And to keep various physiological stuff from killing me.<p>So maybe I'm a lot like that patient in TFA. But there's a key difference: I've never been diagnosed and institutionalized. And dog willing, I'll die before I am.