As people die, their brains are widely believed to stop working. However, near-death experiences are common across the world, and experiments have found that dying lab animals experience bursts of ...
In a recent study published in PNAS, researchers examined the neuronal activity of the dying human brain before and after the clinical discontinuation of ventilatory aid to investigate whether the ...
When medical professionals note a patient’s temperature dropping in the final hours of life, they’re witnessing one of the most reliable biological signals of approaching death. This temperature ...
In the final episode of the FX series Dying for Sex, a hospice nurse with an oddly comforting sense of enthusiasm explains to a patient what to expect as she dies. “Death is not a mystery. It is not a ...