My Mentor Died
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
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🗓️ 20 November 2024
⏱️ 198 minutes
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November 20, 2024
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, deserving listeners. So my mentor, Paul David, died recently. And some of you might remember him coming on the podcast earlier this year talking about his Alzheimer's diagnosis and his decision to have physician-assisted suicide in Switzerland because it's not legal in the United States. |
| 0:24.0 | Well, he went through with that recently and he died. He's dead. He's dead. And before he died, |
| 0:35.7 | we had a living wake where everyone could get together before he died with him |
| 0:42.8 | there and have appreciations and get-togethers and hugs and a last goodbye for some people. |
| 0:52.7 | But he and his wife got a severe case of COVID, so they couldn't |
| 0:58.7 | attend. He was so sick, he couldn't even attend a Zoom call, right? But we recorded it, so he got |
| 1:08.0 | to watch the recording at least. But was a let down but like I said |
| 1:13.8 | I did talk with him on the phone periodically and it was good felt good to have those conversations |
| 1:21.7 | and to I don't know just talk about the old days and talk about his feelings, |
| 1:35.9 | how he felt about everything that he was going through. |
| 1:40.9 | He really, really did not want to put his family, his wife, in particular, through the torment of having a spouse with Alzheimer's as it progresses. |
| 1:55.0 | It could be very painful. |
| 1:56.9 | It could be very hard. |
| 1:58.6 | It can be very scary for everybody, including the person with Alzheimer's. |
| 2:03.0 | Not everyone, but for some people with Alzheimer's, it can result in personality changes, |
| 2:11.0 | depression, anxiety, paranoia, terror, aggression, and it can last for a long time. |
| 2:20.1 | And the way that he saw it past a certain point of degradation, it's not really him anymore, you know? |
| 2:30.8 | And he didn't want to go through it himself, but he particularly didn't want to put his family |
| 2:37.6 | through it. He had known what it was like because he had a mother and a grandmother, close people |
| 2:44.3 | in his life who had Alzheimer's and Louis body dementia, very similar to Alzheimer's, and he saw the effects, the |
| 2:52.5 | torment. |
| 2:54.3 | He also didn't want to drain the finances of the family. |
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