Alzheimers

Alzheimers Who am I': Alzheimer’s Disease and the loss of personality Each and every human being dreams of living a regular, normal life, watching their children grow up and have families of their own. But for some people, this dream along with all their memories can be erased by an ageless disease that affects more then four million Americans today (Evans). Alzheimer’s Disease is a progressive disease that varies from person to person, robbing its victim of their past and future. Alzheimer’s Disease is known as the "Great Eraser" because it turns everyday normal people into helpless, lifeless individuals (Rice). This horrible disease raises a very critical philosophical question: Does the loss of memory mean the loss of personal identity' Although most individuals who have considered this dilemma hold that forfeiture of memory equals a change or even loss of personal identity, this essay will show that this is not necessarily true. In order to fully understand how this lesser held view is, in fact, true one must first comprehend both the biological and psychological effects of Alzheimer’s. Therefore, this paper will be divided into two parts. The first part will display the causes, consequences, and treatments for alzheimer's, disease, ad, mind, personal, brain, one, identity, loss, memory, struck, normal, individual, death, bob, biological, because, way, person, people, patients, must, individuals, even, evans, different, changes, cells, body, being, alzheimer's, very, true, thinking, therefore, show, say, result, physical, philosophical, order, neurons, link, life, human, god, evidence, every, each, diagnosis