Other Voices

In the comments left on a NYTimes blog "A Lesson on how to say good bye", a woman describes her mother's response to hospital interventions - she would say "That's enough". Mother sometimes says "That's enough." when she hears a loud noise she doesn't like. I don't know how it is that elderly women with dementia still manage to be so polite. They don't say "No" or "Shut up!" or "Take your surgery and shove it" . They say "That's enough."