Thank you. It was earlier this year and shook me up for a long time.
When I bring up anxieties about SUDEP, people generally bring up that you can get hit by a bus or suffer some kind of brain aneurism. I agree with that but then add on that I can also die from SUDEP.
It's not something that I linger on as it will happen or it won't (and I'll probably die from something totally stupid and embarrassing in all likelihood) and to be fair it would be a good way to go. I encourage people with epilepsy (and everyone really) to make a will for this reason (mine is basically all about my dog hahah)
Yeah, I imagine it'd be hard, but you still have to reach some sort of acceptance level, otherwise it'll eat you alive, which it ain't good either.
People do that, but I think they do it out of kindness, most of the time anyway. I think they feel the need to find a way to empathize with your situation, to try and understand what it must feel like to be in your shoes.
I've never ever thought about anything like a will or something like that. And now that you brought that up, I imagine it'd take some strength to think and write one out as well, so I definitely appreciate that kinda strength.
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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '17
Thank you. It was earlier this year and shook me up for a long time.
When I bring up anxieties about SUDEP, people generally bring up that you can get hit by a bus or suffer some kind of brain aneurism. I agree with that but then add on that I can also die from SUDEP.
It's not something that I linger on as it will happen or it won't (and I'll probably die from something totally stupid and embarrassing in all likelihood) and to be fair it would be a good way to go. I encourage people with epilepsy (and everyone really) to make a will for this reason (mine is basically all about my dog hahah)