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Originally Posted by HarryT
Far more likely, I suspect, is simply the increasing life expectancy. People who would previously have died at a younger age are living longer, and a certain proportion of them are developing dementia in their old age.
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Sure, that would be a very rational explanation.
However (to feed the other thought):
I've been to England at the end of the 80s, just when the folks were dying by the scores from egg poisoning - this leading to the memorable
"Eggs (The Real Truth)" pamphlet btw. - (not) wondering why the cafeterias at the Canterbury Campus were selling eggs, eggs, eggs, boiled eggs, cooked eggs, baked eggs, fried eggs, maccheroni with eggs, eggs, eggs and eggs... (sorry, got a bit carried away there, I'm afraid
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And another unforgettable moment was eating an exceptionally delicious 16 oz rump steak at the "Black Horse" pub in Cherhill (ever so picturesquely located in sight of a prehistorical chalked-into-the-slope-of-the-local-hill-image of a, er... right,
White Horse) amidst the BSE hysteria in the mid 90s...
Well, what can I say? The frequency of the not-remembering of certain words is slowly rising - not yet alarming, but certainly disconcerting - so I can barely begin to understand how someone must feel with more severe symptoms of such an ailment.
My best wishes to Terry and his family.
Cheers,
- Don [:-]