My situation has converted the question "Am I my brother's keeper?" into the statement "I am My Own Keeper".

 

I am on the path of MCI > Dementia > Alzheimer's > Death which leads to only one place - the choice between two deaths.  In the first death I live as me until I die as me.  In the second death I no longer exist but rather a minimally-functional body continues after I have left it, and then after what may be a very long time the body itself reaches death.

 

I choose the first death.  I will live fully, even more fully than I would have without Alzheimer's as described at www.MCIandMEE.com, and then as I approach the black line I will say my goodbyes and depart this world.  This will not be self-inflicted death - the death has already been inflicted on me, I am fulfilling my function as My Own Keeper in choosing when and how my death will occur.