Does anyone have experience of their loved one with dementia talking about dying and asking when it (life) will be over? My poor Mum is day 4 into new medication (sodium valproate) to help with regulating her moods (she has mental health issues as well as Alzheimer's) and although over the years she's told me on and off she has nothing to live for, today she kept crying and asking to die. So sad. I wonder if it could be the meds to a degree or just this awful disease. She is also asking for her own Mum a lot, it's so heartbreaking. I feel so terrible that she had to be sectioned last November and wonder if she'd stayed in her own home if things wouldn't be so bad now. She seems so much worse since she went into the care home in December. I just can't seem to get any inner peace since this disease took over mine and Mum's life and although she's safe now, I still wonder if she'd have been happy in her own home with full time care, but when she was in her own home she wouldn't have anyone in, it's just a catch 22 that is going over and over in my head. I have to accept she's not going to get any better but to hear her crying and saying she wants to die is awful. Does anyone know if it's a stage of the disease? x