[mhking]

And does anyone else feel like this? When I shed tears during the service, they not only were for the Reagans but also for my Dad, my deceased Mother, my sister, others close to me.

Yes. I lost one grandmother in 2000 (to Alzheimer's, no less), and another early this year.

This ain't easy for me...

[Carolinamom]

My sil died of Altzeimers less than a month ago. Mercifully, she died in her sleep, a second death imo. Altzeimers was her first death, the death of self.