Dennis McCarthy

Oct 21, 2024 | eastbaytimes.com | Dennis McCarthy |Dennis McCarthy |Dennis Mccarthy

For 108 years, Crosby Boghossian has been a forgotten man buried in a pauper's grave - 991 - in the back cemetery of an old mental institution in upstate New York. His cause of death was listed as GPI - general paralysis of the insane. We know it today as advanced dementia. In 1916, the disease wasn't accepted with compassion and care, far from it. It was a stigma that attached itself to a family like a scarlet letter on the forehead. Branded them.