Serious: Physical or Mental Deterioration

[SlowwHand]

You can't choose, but what is your hope?
I would choose physical, even though mental would perhaps make physical less meaningful.
What would be your hope?

[pchang]

Physical. Mental is where my sense of self is. I have taken care of 2 people with Alzheimers/dementia and that was worse than taking care of people with end stage cancer.

[dannubis]

I have seen both and both are horrible in their own way.
If it comes to that, I will choose to go on my own terms even though I will "pull the proverbial trigger" earlier if it would be mental deterioration.

EDIT : I hope this was a theoretical question, Sloww.

[SlowwHand]

Certainly theoretical. As I say, we don't have a choice. I was just wondering to myself what the "advantages" of each would be, which led me to asking here.