Till death, or brain injury, us do part?

Philip Weeks fondly remembers the days when his wife of 56 years,
June, was a nurse and an artist whose paintings were compared to
Rembrandt's. Her paintings still hang in their home in Lynchburg,
Virginia, but almost everything else changed for the couple after she
was diagnosed with possible Alzheimer's disease and then an acute form
of dementia.

In one moment, Weeks said, she would lean over to
kiss him. "An hour later, she looked at me and said, 'Who are you?'"
recalled Weeks, a bishop who belongs to an independent charismatic
church body.

When the person you married goes through a dramatic
change, what's a spouse to do? Clergy, ethicists and brain injury
experts agree: there are no easy answers.