"Dave Mayall" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected] > "LPurch6636" <[email protected]> wrote in message > news:[email protected] > > I have seen the "Cause of Death" as "softening of the brain" in several > > ancestors who died in the late 1800's. Does anyone know what this means?? > > Dementia. > Geez, and here my mother's death cert says "natural causes" <grin> I wonder if I can have that changed.....or the karma will get me if I do that, in that mine will read the same too! >

"Eric and Jamie Simmons" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected] > > "Dave Mayall" <[email protected]> wrote in message > news:[email protected] > > "LPurch6636" <[email protected]> wrote in message > > news:[email protected] > > > I have seen the "Cause of Death" as "softening of the brain" in several > > > ancestors who died in the late 1800's. Does anyone know what this > means?? > > > > Dementia. > > > > Geez, and here my mother's death cert says "natural causes" <grin> I wonder > if I can have that changed.....or the karma will get me if I do that, in > that mine will read the same too! :-) Our ancestors were much blunter than we are today. If Old Nellie was as mad as a hatstand, then "softening of the brain" it was!