Terry Pratchett has been diagnosed with "
a rare form of early-onset Alzheimer's". Damn. As
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minnesattva says,
"Even more than it's excruciating for any person to "lose his/her mind," it would — will — be a tragedy to lose the specific and wonderful mind that calls itself Terry Pratchett."At the end of
his statement, he writes:
I would just like to draw attention to everyone reading the above that this should be interpreted as 'I am not dead'. I will, of course, be dead at some future point, as will everybody else. For me, this maybe further off than you think - it's too soon to tell. I know it's a very human thing to say "Is there anything I can do", but in this case I would only entertain offers from very high-end experts in brain chemistry.