Time.com: When Will I Die? How I Decided Whether to Test for Early-Onset Alzheimer’s

The disease killed my father. At 39, I had to choose how much I wanted to know about my own fate. 

People ask me all the time if I want to find out how and when I’m going to die. But that’s not exactly how they ask it. What they ask is whether I’m going to get tested for the gene associated with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease. It’s hard, though, to miss the subtext in the question: How morbidly curious are you? How much terror can you withstand? Continue reading...