Dementia is not a death. For some, it marks a new beginning | Psyche Ideas

She also shared that someone very close to her was losing their cognitive functions due to dementia and this was consuming her. She felt that it was the most horrible thing. She knew a bit about my work and so she asked what I thought about the whole thing—the fact that we could lose our minds as we aged. I didn’t know what to say exactly so I expl... See more

Collective neuroscience offers a different way of seeing neuropsychiatric conditions such as depression and schizophrenia, for example – not as instances of individual ‘dysfunctions’ in the brain, but as phenomena that emerge from multiple dynamic physiological and social processes. How does one get to the bottom of human cognition if we are intrin... See more

So what would it look like if we took death wellness as seriously as we take fitness? Or nutrition? Or mental health? At the very least, we might live life more fully. At most, we could start to see death as a celebration, especially as our lifespans are expected to increase over the next few decades.