'e's Not Quite Dead (No, He is) - RIP Terry Jones

I just read that on the BBC. TJ had been suffering with dementia for a while and could no longer talk but Michael Palin said there was still enough of the old Terry left when he talked to him.

This is a link to the BBC obituary.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-51209197

Like you said he was multi talented, he did a lot of history documentaries. This is just one of them on Egypt, but there's plenty more on Youtube.

RIP

some of his BBC artsy documentaries were quite insightful. He even gave some Abstract xpressionist cache to Andrew Wyeth.
"Well, to be perfectly honest, if Wyeth would paint a rose, hed dry it out and step all over it first"

Truly RIP (Im sure John Cleese will have a nice gentle eulogy prepared).

Thank you for so much Terry

If I show signs of Alzheimer's I give anyone permission to come and secretly blow my brains out. Its a horrible death. An older colleague died of it and wasnt even diagnosed through his family until one day he just walked out of the house in his underwear and walked to town. I hadnt seen him for about a year when I heard of this event. The yer before I said to him that he should get a check up because he was having aphasia episodes.

If you're that concerned make a living will. My mother in law was obsessed with death with dignity yet when the time came she no longer had the wherewithal to do anything about it. I was just able to get the PoA forms sorted and that was it.

She was very tragic, by all accounts an abusive mother, but even she didn't deserve such a catalogue of misery towards the end.

Christmas Day 2003 husband dies. July 2004 only daughter dies. July 2005 only son dies. July 2007 surviving sister dies and so starts decline. By 2010 she was incapable of speech or understanding that chocolates were something you ate.