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Sure, but a lot of those elderly people have some significant degree of dementia. That make it difficult to go out on your own terms.

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This can be covered in advance, when you can set what to do with your organs after death, or whether to resuscitate you or not and so on, it can be done for this scenario.

In advanced societies of course, but we have few and unfortunate people travel from far and wide to reach those services.

There's a long period between beginning and full, diagnosed dementia. You won't be able to tell what you're signing but you won't be protected by a dementia diagnosis either.

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