This ethnographic exploration of anticipation draws on fieldwork among people with dementia and their families in the Netherlands. I examine how requests for euthanasia by people with dementia offer insight into the work of anticipation, revealing it to be a temporal orientation through which the future is made tangible. Imagining a future with dementia may prompt some people to request euthanasia, but timing such measures is extremely difficult and often results in deferral. Contributing to an emerging anthropology of time, I argue that anticipation is a process of establishing, collapsing, and renegotiating the temporal distance between present and future, bringing the future into the present while also, and simultaneously, keeping the future at bay as a continuous ‘not yet’.

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预见不希望的未来：荷兰的安乐死和痴呆症

这种对预期的民族志探索借鉴了荷兰痴呆症患者及其家人的实地调查。我研究了痴呆症患者的安乐死请求如何提供对预期工作的洞察力，揭示它是一种时间导向，通过它可以使未来变得有形。想象痴呆症的未来可能会促使一些人要求安乐死，但此类措施的时间安排非常困难，而且往往会导致延期。为新兴的时间人类学做出贡献，我认为预期是一个建立、瓦解和重新协商现在与未来之间的时间距离的过程，将未来带入现在，同时，将未来作为一个连续的'还没有'。