An article reporting that Bruce Willis, diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia (FTD), is beginning to forget that he was ever an actor became a hot topic on 5ch.
His current condition — following his retirement in March 2022, prompted by an aphasia diagnosis — drew both shock and sorrow from longtime fans, while other users shared personal experiences noting dementia can happen to anyone, and a heavier discussion unfolded around the process of losing one’s memories.
Bruce Willis, due to dementia, is “forgetting he was even a Hollywood actor.” The “early signs” even his wife missed — how frightening is the “frontotemporal dementia (FTD)” that’s becoming more common among people in their 40s?
Bruce Willis, a leading figure in Hollywood known for classics like “Die Hard,” “The Sixth Sense,” and “Armageddon.”
It became major news when he retired from acting in March 2022 following an aphasia diagnosis.
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
Just the other day I suddenly thought of Bruce Willis, looked him up, and found a news article about him attending his daughter's wedding.
It's genuinely shocking that such a huge star had to retire at 60 because of dementia.
Guess Bruce Willis, 10 years on since retiring, has actually lasted a long time… >>1
Did you forget?
That's so sad.
If he forgets that, the movie doesn't work
That's a brutal spoiler.
Seriously, not cool.
That'd be amyloid beta, right? If they could clear it out, the prognosis would probably improve a lot — though if everyone ends up living longer, that might accelerate humanity's food crisis. Still, I want my own parents to stay sharp until the day they die.
They still look like themselves, but the memories are gone.
the reverse of the emperor's new clothes, believing it anyway
he ought to still be able to plant a nuke on an asteroid headed for Earth (Armageddon reference)
Modern medicine doesn't even know the root cause yet.
Apparently she's helping out with his care
Everyone loses their mind before they die.
I can't remember either.
Makes me wonder if even the author of One Piece has forgotten what's going on in his own story.
in pro-wrestling terms,
'Face… Turned to Damage'? (a stretch at a wrestling-style acronym joke)
And even if you noticed, what would you actually do about it?
he's successful, has more than enough money to live on, and a loving family,
and if on top of that he's lost the fear of death, maybe that's a kind of happiness in its own way.
Well, sure. Dementia is nothing to the person themselves — it's the people around them who have it rough lol
Can't remember what I ate yesterday.
That's just normal aging.
It's only a problem if you can't even remember whether you ate at all.
Apparently people can still recognize their own son but suddenly scream 'get out!' — like their whole personality changes.
Once your mind goes, that's the end of the self.
It forms around age two and eventually fades away —
just the fate of being an animal.
It's only a matter of individual differences — eventually you too will lose the memories of your life.
Human memory comes in two kinds.
Short-term memory, which is temporary, and long-term memory, which lasts.
Short-term memory is the first to go.
You stop being able to recall what you were doing a moment ago.
At work you can cover for it somewhat by taking thorough notes.
But gradually, even that stops working.
You accept it.
And you can still go on living.
Eventually you can't even remember the past anymore.
Long-term memory goes too.
A person's death isn't something that happens suddenly one day.
It begins gradually, starting from when you're young.
By that logic, death starts the moment you're born.
Who do you think you are, coming out with something so deep and philosophical?
You've never been able to remember what you had for dinner two nights ago anyway.
I've been having trouble getting words out lately too — is that bad? Names of people and things just won't come to me. I'm not even 50 yet.
Which would you rather have — a professional diagnosis, or my half-baked opinion?
*This article is compiled as an excerpt/summary from the 5ch (Geinou/Sports News+) thread “[Entertainment] Bruce Willis, due to dementia, is “forgetting he was even a Hollywood actor” — the early signs even his wife missed, and the “FTD” on the rise among people in their 40s.”
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