Dementia sufferers’ spouses laying bare their lives should be stopped

Sharing the pain may lessen it, but Terry Prone wonders if anybody has the right to lay out a spouse’s diminished life for public consumption

The American scandal sheet, The National Enquirer, last week contacted the richest man in the world to say they had him by the short and curlies and planned to publish a story about his marital infidelity within 48 hours. Jeff Bezos, the man in question, made a pre-emptive strike by issuing a press release to all media. Which didn’t stop the Enquirer running eleven pages, including pictures of the other woman involved. If the publication does what it usually does, the next few issues will have further stinker details of Amazon Man’s bad behaviour.