Keeping Mum, a Dementia Diary at The Irish Times - The word dementia is not enough to name an illness that has been likened to a slow death

What word to summon the image of a giant eraser being swept carelessly and cruelly across the blackboard of a life, rubbing it all out so there is nothing left?

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