Prunella Scales brown bread

[dm]

Sad news
aged 93

[Far Cough UKunt]

John Cleese has a Lemur named after him the Bemaraha woolly lemur (Avahi cleesei) due to his conservation efforts for them in Madagascar.

Fair play.

[Takashi Miike]

[Russ of the BML]

Without wishing to lower the tone of a respectful thread. 

I always had a massive thing for Polly. But now I have got older I watch Fawlty Towers now and I can't help but see Cybil as a bit of a sort now. 

Just an observation. 

[Bungo]

My ex-wife's Granny had dementia. Her husband adored her and she was as happy as Larry, not knowing exactly who her loved ones were (she knew her husband, but had no idea about most of the rest) but greeted them all with fresh excitement and joy every time she saw them. I thought she was great.

So it's not always a simple thing. Dementia doesn't automatically mean unhappy.

RIP Pru (and lovely Connie)

 

 

This is a very good point.

An elderly relative of mine that developed dementia became massively happier than she had been at any previous time. She had a live-in carer that she absolutely loved and showed affection in a way that she never would have been capable of before.

Far too much to go into on here, but advances in this field are substantial and rapid, and of just as much value as any other medical research. Remember, there are plenty of patients with early onset dementia (50s sometimes), whose survival and preservation of quality of life is just as important as that of any other type of patient.

[SurfaceAgentX2Zero]

My ex-wife's Granny had dementia. Her husband adored her and she was as happy as Larry, not knowing exactly who her loved ones were (she knew her husband, but had no idea about most of the rest) but greeted them all with fresh excitement and joy every time she saw them. I thought she was great.

So it's not always a simple thing. Dementia doesn't automatically mean unhappy.

RIP Pru (and lovely Connie)

[honky cat]

30/40 years ago, it was all over for dementia sufferers within a year. They would go downhill quickly, because of poor nutrition and they'd maybe pick up an infection. Now they are given drugs and fed antibiotics - to slow it down. What is the point of slowing an incurable disease like that. It not about assisted suicide, its just letting things take its natural course.

Young woman with cancer and a family - yes do everything to keep her here for as long as possible and hope for that miracle.
80 year old with dementia - let them go.
 

[MaryMillingtonsGhost]

Surely you should be allowed to choose how you live your life?

 

 

 

Or when to end it.

[VirginiaHam]

And then you'd get the anti assisted suicide cunts moaning about the fact that shouldn't happen. Surely you should be allowed to choose how you live your life?

[honky cat]

She'd have been better off dropping dead at 80 (a good innings) than living like that til 93. Someone, somewhere has made a few quid keeping her 'alive' for 13 years, its a disgrace.

[VirginiaHam]

Prunella did well.......13 years from diagnosis, but I wonder what her last 5 years were like. It's a shagger of a disease but she made it to 93.  A very close friend of mine's partner was diagnosed in 2013 and lasted 10 years.....65. He had no clue about anything in his last years; just tragic. Just as you get to your golden years you get fucked up the arse. Ghastly.

[the coming of gary]

Arguably, the best 'straight man' in UK comedy history. 

RIP Cybil. One of a kind. 

Nice point about a woman being a great 'straight man'

others include Dandy Nichols in Til death us do part, and Kaley Cuoco in The big bang theory
.

[dm]

low effort title. 

Fair point.  I tried to come up with something witty along the lines of Sybil Fawlty has checked in her last guest. But though, that may look stupid.  Maybe I should have done that after all. 
actually tbh I was also worried that someone else may beat me to it. 

[zico]

Awful disease, saw mum go through it.  RIP

[Fauxstralian]

Sad to hear but given her dementia & the death of Timothy West it’s for the best
Brilliant as Sybil & loved that canal boat show she did with him
RIP

[Russ of the BML]

Arguably, the best 'straight man' in UK comedy history. 

RIP Cybil. One of a kind. 

[XKhammer]

Meet her once with her devoted husband Timothy West(really super nice fella) and she had early stages of dementia 
RIP Pru

[Gary Strodders shank]

RIP.

A terrible disease indeed.

One of my best mates dads has Alzheimer's supposedly in the early stages so he is still in his retirement flat with carers coming in.and even goes to the pub for two pints every lunchtime under close supervision of the regulars.

A couple of weeks back they received a call from the landlady saying he had  returned to the pub as he had locked himself out of the flat and was unable to get a signal on his phone to let anyone know.

When his daughter in law picked him up to take him home he informed her that the phone was "shit and "knackered" as he couldn't ring anyone but it  kept buzzing with nobody on the other end, he then pulled out his electric shaver to demonstrate.

As my pal said you either laugh or cry 

To see a man who was always so proud strong and mentally clued up reduced to a frail shadow slowly losing control of his mind and sadly other bodily functions is truly tragic.

That there is no ceiling put on the amount and individual has to pay for adult social care is also truly scandalous.

Enjoy yourself chsps it might be later than you think.



 

[Takashi Miike]

prunella suffered for many years, I watched quite a lot of her and husband timothy west as I enjoyed their show, great canal journeys. I didn't think she'd outlive him, they were a lovely couple

[Lee Trundle]

A horrible, horrible disease.

RIP

[Mike Oxsaw]

Pushing up Daisies? Moi???!!!

RIP.

[honky cat]

RIP

The greatest sitcom of all time.

I didn't realise she was that old but I see Cleese and Booth are well into their 80s. Where does the time go . . nurse, nurse . . 

[Swiss.]

"'Basil ! "  RIP Prunella

[Massive Attack]

We've all been there when dealing with kind of nonsense..

[Mr Anon]

low effort title. 

[Alfs]

Riddled with dementia.  She's gone to a happier place.