# Terry Pratchett pledges $1 million to Alzheimer's Research Trust

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2008/03/13/terry-pratchett-pledges-1-million-alzheimer039s-research-trust/
- Published: 2008-03-13T11:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**Best-selling author Terry Pratchett has this morning pledged $1 million to the
Alzheimer’s Research Trust to help the UK charity find a cure for the disease with
which he was diagnosed in December 2007.**

Speaking at the charity’s ninth Annual Network Conference in Bristol this morning,
the Discworld author described the frustration he felt after learning he had a rare
version of early-onset Alzheimer’s disease, and the extreme lengths he would go 
to in order to beat the disease.

“Part of me lives in a world of new age remedies and science”, he said, “and some
of the science is a little like voodoo, but science was never an exact science, 
and personally I’d eat the arse out of a dead mole if it offered a fighting chance.”

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He committed himself to raising awareness of dementia and the urgent need for more
research, saying: “I intend to scream and harangue while there is time.”

The Alzheimer’s Research Trust contrasts the fact that, for every person with Alzheimer’s,
£11 is spent each year on UK research compared with £289 for each cancer patient,
even though similar numbers of people are affected.

www.alzheimers-research.org.uk

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