This is the first time I've seen this fact on a list like this. It's true. In an itemisation of more than 100 tons of waste collected from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, less than half came from a land-based source. More than half came from fishing boats: nets, floats, buoys, and crates washed overboard.

Refeeding syndrome?

Holy s**t is that why my great grandma died!?!?! I heard my dad saying she was refusing to eat, then she died two days later...I was devastated because I thought she was getting better since she was more lucid

Wanted to add another point. Quite often, other reasons why people with dementia pass away are that they forget that they have taken their regular medications and accidentally overdose on them. Specially medications for diabetes and hypertension when overdosed puts them in a coma they never wake up from. Also, quite many people forget how to breathe. they just cannot remember how to breathe and suffocate to death.

A friend’s grandma ended up in the hospital and eventually passed away because, even though it seemed like she was doing ok, they found out she’d forgotten how to swallow properly, and bits of food had been accumulating in her lungs for months. By the time they caught it she had a terminal respiratory infection from it. It was incredibly sad.

My mother in law passed 3 years ago from dementia. She had been on a medication but her husband would get forgetful or she would fight him on taking pills or just throw them out. She went from being sweet to combative to being like a 3 year old. Some speech. We got them into a care home a they were there about two years before she went totally down hill. She passed at 92 still walking an making some words but he could control her and would basically sit all day. It's a long story but at the end she just sort of withered away into her mind and they told us she had stopped eating. We all took turns being with her and talking to her. Yes it's sad. They just shut down and drift into their minds and then the body ends itself. He passed a few years later and was in his mind but his body just couldn't anymore after he took a small fall. It's the adrenaline for most elderly when a fall happens. It just gives one last push and the body can't handle it. So they are even weaker. I miss them.

I worked in senior living for 10 years. And this is very, very true. Always. My seniors citizens,I loved taking care of all of them. Every day was different ,I never knew what I was walking into every single morning! I do miss it. I miss taking care of them, NOT the administration part of it . SAHM now:)

sometimes when i think about swallowing / eating food i forget how to swallow and have to force the food down, its scary s**t

I hate dementia....it , along with diabetes, took my dad. Sadly, anyone who has this horrible disease, will unlearn everything they learnt, from tying a shoelace, holding on to go to the toilet, read, and yes, swallow. The best you can hope for is that they don't know what is happening. Sadly my dad had an unusual firm, he knew he had a ' Swiss cheese brain'. Kidney failure got him in the end but he was already on solid liquids...they put something in liquids to make it thicker, and easier to spoon-fed. So important to have an end of life plan. If your of a certain age, definitely discuss your wishes at yhe end with your next of kin, if not quite there yet, still discuss it. Hugs those you love while you can.

my great grandmother had dementia. did not know who we were at the end, not even her own daughter who cared for her for 40 years. thankfully she did not starve to death, her body just stopped working one night and that was it. sad, but there are worse things

I meant this is true when/ if they are receiving hospice care. Of course, I had residents who had suddenly passed peacefully . That was always harder for me to deal with when it was so sudden. But the families would end up comforting me! Telling me it was actually a blessing, and they are at peace. I had to learn that very early on.

Yep. That's how my grandmother died. She just forgot how to swallow and wouldn't drink or eat anything until she passed. It is f*****g horrible.

Holy s**t...is that why my great grandmother died!??!? oh my god she had dementia and i heard my mom saying she started refusing food, then she died two days later...i was devastated because she seemed like she was getting better and more lucid

My stepdad's mother dies after pneumonia from aspirating food, because she had lost the ability to swallow properly from dementia. I would say it's the gentle killer, but she had been in a wheelchair with no self help skills or ability to speak for years...

They pretty it up, calling it "failure to thrive". That's how I lost my Nana. She just shut down.

I've lived through the deaths of 4 family members from dementia & now my husband has a different form caused by MS. It's a horrible way to die!

I used to work in a nursing home. When they how forget how to eat they get an NG tube.

I think some people here don't realize that many patients actually lose the ability to swallow. This happens with many different diseases and sometimes just from old age. Sure, some people are absolutely done with life and choose to quit drinking/eating, but in most cases it's not really a choice, but another body function degrading as the result of other illness. Also, refusing to eat isn't typically what kills people, it's the refusal/inability to drink that does it, sometimes in as little as 48 hours.

Oh, I'm sorry but they feel pain. The day before my dad died was excruciating to listen to. We couldn't help him feel comfortable. He moaned and wailed, begging for help. (I can still hear this now) I finally had to call in hospice to help us with him. They gave him the heavy duty meds and he went to sleep and didn't wake up again. For awhile after I felt like I hadn't done enough. That if I hadn't called hospice and they hadn't given him those horrible meds he might still be alive. But he was 93 years old, he lived a good life and he had a wife 4 kids who love him. He was suffering and he had been, he couldn't breathe, he wasn't eating, he couldn't get out of bed. What an awful disease.

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Fitting death for evil people, like my father, I hope he suffered

There is a criteria for dementia patients to go to hospice. Then hospice gives those patients d***s to stop the pain and stop the anxiety they might feel

I was recently explaining this to someone when talking about euthanasia. My grandma had Alzheimer's and the deterioration breaks your heart. I don't want to live like that.

The brain forgets everything and organs etc shut down my grandad had it and even though he ate barely anything it was enough for him to not starve to death.

Dementia (regardless of source) is a cruel and awful thing for the person experiencing it and the people who have to deal with it.

This isn't a secret.

I've told my kids to put me in a home and forget about me if I get dementia and start forgetting about them. I've seen close relatives try to take care of loved ones with dementia and it's heartbreaking. I don't want to put anyone I love through that.

That happened to my friends' grandmother.

My mama starved to death? How did I not know this??? 😭

That must be torture

the last goodbye

i think 99% are fake. because I doubt that all these people film themselves constantly, while they walk, eat, work, do their shopping...

Upvote for being a doorknob

Cheers 🥂

He wasn’t caught dancing with the corpse, the sister of the deceased had heard a rumor that somebody was keeping a dead body in their house because the body of her sister was missing from the Mausoleum where she was buried

That is one of the most disturbing things which I have ever heard.

can explain the number of missing peoples :/

Aye aye, capi-tan.

Blucifer is pretty darn creepy. I think it’s the glowing eyes that really do it.

"The snack that smiles back." 🤣🤣

And luck.

My cousin's cousin died at age 19. He came home from work with a slight headache and went for a nap before dinner. 15 minutes later his mum called him for dinner and he didn't come down. She went up to go and get him assuming he was still asleep and found that he had died in his sleep. He was perfectly healthy and didn't get regular headaches or anything it was just so unexpected

That's really interesting

Back in the late 90s they refurbished the grating that acts as the road surface on the Mathews bridge. The contractor did a poor job and the sections had a slight misalignment that caused your vehicle to jolt sideways at each joining. A day or two after re-opening a woman's jeep lost control and went over the side. The cities solution, instead of fixing the bridge, was to lower the speed limit from 45 mph to 35.

The second paragraph is referring to an Alpha Class nuclear submarine. They used molten lead as a reactor coolant.

Sharks also often die like this, by sinking, which is why cutting off fins is so cruel. The sharks can't keep moving and just sink and die

And the GOP is working to ban pregnant women from filling for divorce. Nor can they abort an unwanted pregnancy. The mortality rate in MAGA states is already high; this can only make it worse.

I was watching something the other day where someone posed as an 11 yr old and got a message from.a sexual predator within 7 mins and then hundreds in the following hour