Michael J. Fox makes heartbreaking admission on how he wants to die amid Parkinson’s struggles

“I keep getting new challenges physically, and I get through it. I roll around in a wheelchair a lot, and it took some getting used to.”

Now, more than 30 years after his diagnosis, Fox admitted that he no longer walks regularly due to the risk of serious injury.

In an interview with The Times, the actor said: “And that’s [the point] where I break stuff, it’s absolutely incredible the stuff I broke. In a three-year period I broke my elbow, I broke my hand, I got a big infection in my hand and I almost lost my finger.”

He added: “I take it easy now, I don’t walk that much anymore. I can walk but it’s not pretty and it’s a bit dangerous.”

Given the debilitating, degenerative nature of his condition, Fox has also come to consider the finer points of his mortality. In the past, he’s highlighted that falling is a major danger for sufferers of Parkinson’s, along with choking on food.

“You don’t die from Parkinson’s. You die with Parkinson’s,” Fox previously explained. “I’ve been thinking about the mortality of it. … I’m not gonna be 80. I’m not gonna be 80.”Continue reading…