If nothing else, it could allow you to make different decisions in your life. If my mind is going to be gone in 10 years, I'm sure as shit not saving for long term retirement anymore.
Parkinsons affects motor control, not mental functioning. The point still stands -- if I got a diagnosis I would be less likely to embark on learning to play the piano, and I'd start educating myself on the disease.
EDIT: I'll correct myself. It primarily affects motor control, but late in the disease it can affect cognition.
Perhaps counterintuitively, doing something like learning to play the piano could potentially slow the progression of fine motor skill impairment. Same with things like Tai Chi, dancing, exercise in general...
But hopefully if you could get a Parkinson's diagnosis seven years prior to symptoms, you'd be able to save some money to keep from becoming a burden on your family later on.
And yes I'm well aware this applies inductively to all of life, it's just somehow better if you don't know the value of N.
I tried that and found it absolutely depressing and futile. Quick experiences never did anything for me or my family. But just doing what I like/want to do only (which not everyone can; some people seem to like/want things that cost a lot of money) is what I should've done for the past 40, not only the past 20 years is what I mean. Maybe dying next year is stressful for most, so make it 5 years; is that better? Or 7 as the article says?
But euthanasia as a non traumatic form of death unlike suicide, is still prohibitively expensive.
Crowdfunding steals your privacy.
Science steals your privacy, and can keep you alive for longer.
So are you not over rating life somewhat?