Don't feel guilty for being glad about a death. That's a cultural trap.
I was happy for my mother in law when she died (though I cried and I still miss her). She was in pain, the cancer had destroyed her ability to go to the toilet herself, she was blind and she wanted to be free of it. (She told us that, and we believed her)
I know many people (myself among them) who would rather be dead than have dementia. I want to right to specify in advance that I should be allowed to die if I develop several dementia. I don't want to go through it and I don't want my family to have to go though it.
I don't know if your Dad felt the same way, but he may have done.
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Date: 2017-01-02 06:36 pm (UTC)I was happy for my mother in law when she died (though I cried and I still miss her). She was in pain, the cancer had destroyed her ability to go to the toilet herself, she was blind and she wanted to be free of it. (She told us that, and we believed her)
I know many people (myself among them) who would rather be dead than have dementia. I want to right to specify in advance that I should be allowed to die if I develop several dementia. I don't want to go through it and I don't want my family to have to go though it.
I don't know if your Dad felt the same way, but he may have done.