Astrology, Spirituality & Alternative Healing

from complications after a long decline due to dementia. His dad and some other family members also died with the disease. Long before Dad got sick he became terrified of "winding up like his Dad". I've thought about this often over the years. He never did anything in this life to deserve how he had to live the last 15 years of his. Is is possible to scare oneself into a disease? Or maybe did he know at some level that he bravely chose to do this as his soul contract even though he dreaded it; and which was with all of us who also lived through it with him, especially my stepmother. She has grown the most through the ordeal and our relationship has changed from someone who I tolerated for Dad's sake to someone I love deeply.

I think if it was some kind of karma or his soul contract that it came out right and at least he won't have to repeat it.