Cool Beans

[pasithea]

Someone is finally doing something kinda cool with the f***'d bond measures nonsense in California.

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/business/8836234.htm?1c

Its interesting, verging on a cruel chuckle that it is being strongly supported by Nancy Reagan. See, in 1982, Ronald Reagan IMPOSED THE BAN against Stem Cell Research and delayed by TWELVE YEARS research that could have kept him from becoming a diaper-wearing mindless sack of meat. He was all too happy to consign others to this fate, I think its a fitting end to him for it. Any research that happens now will come much too late for him but at least Nancy seems to have learned the lesson and grown something of a heart. No one should have to face a disease like Altzheimers. I can honestly say that of all the diseases, abuses, and everything else in the world, things like altzheimers are the only things I really truly fear. I'd rather be tortured to death than rot in a body while my mind slipped away.

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[kibbles.livejournal.com]

I was not aware he was the one that imposed the ban! What a cruel twist of fate.

Meanwhile I tried to donate umbillical stem cells for research or use, but I couldn't do it. I couldn't afford to bank em, but I figured I could at least donate em. Nope. :(

I'd hate to be like that, I'd think. But then I look at my Dad, with Parkinson's Like Syndrome (Thats what they call it) and think about a good mind in a body that won't listen, and that seems sucky, too. I mean he's ok, but his uncle has full blown and has to crawl (on a good day) and I dont know what would be worse. At least if your mind is gone, maybe you arent aware? I dunno.

[heavenscalyx.livejournal.com]

Karma works. Sometimes in really vicious ways.

But then there are the people who don't deserve Alzheimer's. Nearly everyone, really.

I think the thing I fear most about Alzheimer's is the periodic lucidity. Knowing that you're no longer a functional human being, that you're helpless, in the care of some other person who may be being paid far too little to care for you, or, worse, is one of your loved ones sacrificing a chunk of their life to you.

Watching both my grandmothers go this way was one of the worst experiences of my life. It's absolutely no wonder to me that Nancy grew a brain and a heart out of the experience, and huzzah for her for using her influence for the forces of good.

(wandered in on friendsfriends... hope you don't mind)

[dv-girl.livejournal.com]

I agree. One of my aunts went that way as well and it was a really terrible thing for most of my family. It did not have much contact with her and I was very young when she died but it seemed like the lucid moments were the worst for her. I don't think anyone deserves to die this way, even Reagan. I can only imagine how much worse his lucid moments might be; knowing that the very research he blocked might have saved him or at least slowed his decline and the final understanding of how painful it is for people suffering from this disease. He may have made a lot of bad choices but I don't think anyone deserves this.