Leaving mentally? No. Leaving physically? Absolutely!
Long before I had the internet or knew of Ray Franz, the Society's 1914 Generation had failed. I had wondered for years, 'If this generation goes past 80 years, what will happen. Something will have to give, what will it be?'
The definition changed to a lame explanation of the generation being one of 'contemporary worldly people', or some such silly thing. It made no sense to me at all. I was mentally gone after that.
Started looking on the internet more than 10 years later, learned of Franz' books, and it's been an amazing education ever since.
I feel genuinely sorry for people of previous generations that had no such source of information, and perhaps even died thinking theWatchtower had the truth and they weren't good enough for it.
So many lives ruined.