Might be for the best. A family friend died not that many years ago after a seemingly sudden onset of progressive neurological deterioration. The decade before, he'd become much more religious, describing to me what he felt as "grace" - short, intense emotional periods where he saw the world like a newborn and was overcome with wonder. If only we'd realized.
He was a lifelong deer hunter, lived in the woods for a few weeks every year, field dressing, butchering, and eating his kills the traditional way. Our area has CWD cases, and while he was going through it, I asked if he'd ever tested or been tested, and he said no, he'd been told it wasn't contagious to humans.