Wow incredible. I don’t know what to say, on one hand it’s beautiful but strange at the same time. “I’m not going to miss you” I assume because he has Alzheimer’s, but isn’t that sort of making fun of himself?
Not really, His disease will gradually take his mind to a place where memories don’t exist. The last 5 minutes would be non-existant. So he is saying I’m not going to miss you because in my mind now, you never were there. How sad.
It’s the irony of it: Soon he will be beyond the pain of realizing the people he loves the most he will not be able to recognize, nor remember anything about.
And even more unfair, it just makes leaving that much harder for the people he loves the most.
F*ck climate change - if we EVER needed a Manhattan Project to deal with a disease, it’s Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.
Biden and Hagel are idiots.
Wow incredible. I don’t know what to say, on one hand it’s beautiful but strange at the same time. “I’m not going to miss you” I assume because he has Alzheimer’s, but isn’t that sort of making fun of himself?
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I see it as a stone cold and factual assessment of where he’ll soon be or already is, no joke at all.
I think it is more of a statement that he understands he is not going to experience missing her because his memory is going to fade and he will die before she is gone. So she will experience the loss of him; he will not experience the loss of her. It is a very personal and sad statement from him to his wife, that he understands what she is going to go through. It sounds almost cold and impersonal to say "I'm not going to miss you" but in reality it is a very personal and sad statement.