>>>My wife and I are moving to a state that allows assisted suicide after our kids are out of the house. Neither of us want to live like that or be remembered like that.
Same - but even in places where assisted suicide is legal, it's often not available for cases of dementia. In my jurisdiction you must be terminally ill and of sound mind at the time you request medically assisted death; you can't set something up in advance, can't give power of attorney to another, can't qualify based on dementia alone, and if you happen to have, say, dementia and cancer, probably can't request it because of your dementia specifically.
It's a tough problem to be sure, and I hope it gets well sorted out before I hit old age.
Same - but even in places where assisted suicide is legal, it's often not available for cases of dementia. In my jurisdiction you must be terminally ill and of sound mind at the time you request medically assisted death; you can't set something up in advance, can't give power of attorney to another, can't qualify based on dementia alone, and if you happen to have, say, dementia and cancer, probably can't request it because of your dementia specifically.
It's a tough problem to be sure, and I hope it gets well sorted out before I hit old age.