How my dad's dementia changed my idea of death (and life) | Beth Malone

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🗓️ 16 November 2017

⏱️ 7 minutes

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With warmth and grace, Beth Malone tells the deeply personal story of her dad's struggle with frontotemporal lobe dementia, and how it changed her idea of death (and life). A moving talk about a daughter's love -- and of letting go and finding peace.

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0:00.0	This TED Talk features artist, curator, and social entrepreneur, Beth Malone.
0:06.0	Recorded live at TED Residency 2017.
0:10.8	I've been doing some thinking.
0:14.2	I'm going to kill my dad.
0:17.3	I called my sister, listen.
0:20.0	I've been doing some thinking.
0:21.6	I'm going to kill Dad.
0:24.6	I'm going to take him to Oregon,
0:27.6	find some heroin, and give it to him.
0:31.6	My dad has frontotemporalob dementia or FtD.
0:35.6	It's a confusing disease.
0:38.4	It hits people in their 50s or 60.
0:40.1	It can completely change someone's personality,
0:43.1	making them paranoid and even violent.
0:45.8	My dad has been sick for a decade,
0:47.8	but three years ago, he got really sick,
0:50.3	and we had to move him out of his house.
0:52.6	The house that I grew up in,
0:54.5	the house that he built with his own hands.
0:57.7	My strapping, cool dad with the falsetto singing voice
1:02.1	had to move into a facility for round-the-clock care when he was just 65.
1:09.2	At first, my mom and sisters and I made the mistake of putting him in a regular nursing home
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