bulldog10jw
March 13th, 2014, 05:04 PM
http://www.suntimes.com/sports/football/bears/26161906-606/ex-bear-mike-pyle-another-nfl-great-sadly-slipping-away-from-dementia.html
When is a person no longer a person? Or more pointedly, when is a person no longer the person he was?
When are the memories, the habits, the reasoning — the essence — gone and the human that remains but a familiar shell with a blank slate inside?
Some would say never. Some wonder.
‘‘Yep,’’ says Mike Pyle, the former Bears center.
The big man with the white Hemingway beard is reclining in a lounge chair in his room at the Silverado Memory Care Community in Highland Park. He had been asked if he remembered 1963, the year his Bears team won the world championship, three years before the first Super Bowl.
When is a person no longer a person? Or more pointedly, when is a person no longer the person he was?
When are the memories, the habits, the reasoning — the essence — gone and the human that remains but a familiar shell with a blank slate inside?
Some would say never. Some wonder.
‘‘Yep,’’ says Mike Pyle, the former Bears center.
The big man with the white Hemingway beard is reclining in a lounge chair in his room at the Silverado Memory Care Community in Highland Park. He had been asked if he remembered 1963, the year his Bears team won the world championship, three years before the first Super Bowl.