Earlier this year, we shared the story of one family’s dispute over a loved one with dementia. That story, originally reported in The New York Times Magazine by Katie Engelhart, won the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing this past week. Today, we're revisiting Katie’s story – and the question at the heart of it: When cognitive decline changes people, should we respect their new desires?
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Hi everybody.
Its sabrina.
Im here because today were doing something special.
Were revisiting a show from earlier this year from January.
The story at the center of this episode, which was first a magazine feature by reporter Katie Englehart.
It just won a Pulitzer Prize for feature writing.
This past weekend, our team here at the daily, including producers Luke van der Plug, Claire tennis Sketter, Diana Wynn, and deputy editor Michael Benoit, worked with Katie to tell that story in audio.
Both versions, we think, shed powerful human light on a disease that affects so many people, dementia.
So we wanted to resurface it for all of you.
Hope youll give it a listen.
Heres the show.
Amongst philosophers who study dementia, theres this story that gets told over and over again.
And its about a woman named Margot.