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In a way this happens to everyone ....


All humans if they live long enough go from helpless moron, child - to a human at the height of their intelligence, and then they start to forget and lose their mechanisms of thought often back to a virtual blank slate.

Great story.

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Not everyone ends up as a blank slate - some people stay sharp to the end. A combination of good genes, reasonably healthy living, and probably a bit of luck, will get some folks to the finish line in reasonably good shape.

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If they live long enough everyone's mind degrades. The ones who get to your finish line sharp at the end .... ( noticed you changed your metaphor there ) just did not have the physical health to keep going.

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