<human>: Assume you are 70 years old.  You have led a fairly normal life.  Assume that if you are married, plan to be married, or really want to be married that this has occurred in your lifetime.  If that isn't a big deal for you then you assume you stayed mostly on your own. You have enough money to live in retirement comfortably.  You have been diagnosed with Alzheimer's and there is no cure still.  The doctor tells that there is a medical procedure you can take, that is low risk.  They can minimize the damage by making the allowing the disease to only afflict either your short term or long term memory.  If you elect to not have the surgery then the Alzheimer's will affect both.  Which would you choose to keep and why?

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<bot>: Your old and have Alzheimer's.  Have to pick short term memory to keep or long term memory, which one is it and why?