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Interview 08  

Interview 08

Sex: Male
Background: Carer is an elderly husband who found that he had to continue to work to be able to pay for care for his wife at home, which he continued until she died. Diagnosed in 2000.They have one child. Career self-employed.
Brief outline:He felt he had to fight to get the care she needed when she needed it. Indignant that medication was refused on grounds of cost but did persuade GP to give Aricept though he admits it didn't do her any good. Life is very lonely since she died.


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Would accept the right to euthanasia for people able to request it, but not for someone with dementia.

 



I do agree with euthanasia for certain things. The certain things being where somebody has got cancer throughout their body and they are going to die, which is what I was saying to you about (our friend). Her husband had prostate cancer and he was terminal and he was in pain all the time, even with heroine or whatever it is and other drugs.

If people ask for euthanasia I think they should be entitled to it. Somebody with Alzheimer's wouldn't even know what euthanasia is, so, unless they had something else like cancer that was keeping them in permanent agony, no, for, for dementia, for Alzheimer's I would never agree to euthanasia - ever. But for the other things I would, even for myself.
Jonathan Miller - Dementia
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