Is it true that Margaret Thatcher?

Question

Me and my friend were discussing how people eventually are delivered justice in life by their actions, and he brought up a story about Margaret Thatcher. She developed dementia, and her husband died about 5 years before she got it. He claims that every day she wakes up and asks "Where is Denis?" (her husband) And she has to be told that he passed away every single day, suffers, forgets, and suffers again every day. He also said that she has to relive and rediscover the horrible things she had done like letting the Irish protesters die and killing the Argentinians. So in a way, she suffers thousands of times, representing the thousands of people she caused to suffer. Is this story true, or is it just a myth?

Answer 1

It's true that Dennis Thatcher died about 5 years ago, and the Margaret Thatcher is now in poor health, which in not unexpected due to her advanced age.  But I have seen no credible report that she has dementia.  The whole story sounds very much like a myth.

Answer 2

It's more or less true and it happened to her friend and fellow Thatcherite Ronald Reagan, too. Makes you wonder, doesn't it?

Answer 3

Yes it is proven that she has dementia, and I also heard this before. It may be just a rumor though.

cp_scipiom is an incompetent fool who knows sh.it about history except his little affairs in Poland. The 1981 hunger strike started when Bobby Sands was imprisoned for the illegal possession of fire arms. He was a member of British Parliament for the IRA. He was not a terrorist, but a political subversive who helped to push the republican movement in Ireland. And the man did not murder children, I don't know where you obtained that rubbish from. After he was arrested, a group of political prisoners followed him and went on a hunger strike, for five demands of their quality in prison. Margaret Thatcher blatantly ignored their requests and the strike was called off by the time 10 prisoners died. For the Falkland Island War, a small group of the Argentinean military junta force occupied the island for political purposes. They never expected that the Margaret Thatcher and the UK would actually respond militarily, which was a joke, considering the value of two small insignificant islands in the South Atlantic. It could have been easily negotiated by a treaty. The English bombed and destroyed an aircraft carrier, and in all in the petty war, 907 lives in total were lost that had not needed to be. So if you want to call Margaret Thatcher a good woman, go ahead. I'd hate to burst your little protective ignorance bubble. And please don't go sticking your nose into a controversial issue like a babbling fool without educating yourself. I very much dislike people who do that. I hope I was able to educate you. Please educate yourself before making erroneous claims.

reefguy15

Answer 4

Her daughter's memoirs published in part in a Sunday paper yesterday say that her mother has dementia, but that she now knows her husband is dead, although she had to be told several times before she took it in. However, according to other reports in today's papers, friends have said she doesn't have dementia, but is just suffering from the forgetfulness of old age. As to her reliving things she's done in the past, that's just a myth. That woman (who was always totally dotty IMO) would never admit to being wrong - EVER

Answer 5

you seriously suggest she should have broken the law and force fed a Irish terrorist responsible for murdering children? even though that idiots family refused to apply for a feeding order?

or that she should have allowed the Argentinians to sail their antique cruiser within gun range of the Brit ships? Like she dragged them out of their beds and forced them to invade in the first place?

Think of all the nice people who died in their beds- Stalin, Mao, Chinghis Khan

I know one thing- she is partly responsible for liberating East Europe from the russians. Reagan, JP2 and Walesa were the others. And for that I shall be eternally grateful

I'm from Poland