how can you die from a disease that makes you forget? does it eat your brain or something? are they close to a cure yet?
It does deteriorate your brain. Eventually, you forget how to do anything at all, even eat or sit up in bed, so you become bedridden and quite often you die of something like pneumonia or you get bedsores and they become infected.
My grandmother had Alzheimer's disease and she died of pneumonia.
There is no cure. They have treatments, like Aricept, that help some of the symptoms, especially in the early and middle stages, but these medicines do not stop the decline, which is inevitable.