Have you ever felt that someone you know will die soon, and then your premonition was confirmed? Have you thought about someone's death, and then found out that this thought turned out to be real? Isn't the ability to predict death an innate, albeit mostly latent, human ability?

In December 1970, Linda Wilson, a housewife and mother from New Jersey, came to her neighbors for Christmas dinner and immediately felt something unpleasant. "I felt the 'smell' of death," she says. "I always felt that something was chilling my nostrils, as if I were outside in the cold." She found the smell disgusting, overpowering the scent of the Christmas tree and tasty food on the table. The husband of the neighbor who invited Linda to dinner had Parkinson's disease, but no one, including his doctors, expected his death. (The disease itself is usually not fatal.) Linda Wilson's birthday dinner that day did not bring joy. “I kept my eyes on Peter all evening. It was crazy, but I didn’t leave the certainty that he would die soon. I was shaking. Nothing like this had ever happened to me before." A week later, Peter came down with pneumonia. He died five days later. Did Linda really smell death?

One famous psychic said that he saw death, standing on one of the upper floors of a skyscraper, waiting for the elevator. When the elevator arrived and the door opened, he was horrified. All four elevator passengers had no aura. Another person entered the elevator, and immediately his glow disappeared. "This is a sign of death," says the psychic, "I wanted to tell them to get out and wait for another elevator, but I knew that no one would listen." The door closed and the elevator car flew twenty-two floors, killing the five people inside. For some mysterious reason, the emergency brake did not work.

There is evidence that some animals can sense death. Rosalie Abreu, who pioneered captive breeding of chimpanzees, told us about the death of a female from her kennel. At the moment when the chimpanzee was dying indoors, her male, who was in the park, began to scream piercingly. "He screamed for a long time, looking around as if he knew something, and then, when another chimpanzee died, he behaved exactly the same way. He screamed and screamed and screamed. And he looked. His lower lip hung down, like as if he saw something that is inaccessible to us. His cry was completely different from what I usually heard. It made my blood run cold. "

How do vultures detect a dying animal? We know that hyenas and jackals are attracted to the place where a dying animal is located by sounds and smells. "But vultures seem to pick up some other signal," says biologist Lyle Watson, "and even find a hidden corpse with incredible accuracy." Vultures have really excellent vision, due to the structure of the retina, which makes it possible for them to catch the slightest distant movement. As soon as one vulture finds food, others immediately flock to the meal. But sometimes this cannot explain their appearance. Watson states: "I have seen vultures come in in the dark and sit like patient funeral processions around a shot antelope, although in this case there were no carrion-eating animals around to attract their attention." Many scientists believe that a dying organism can give a rather powerful signal if it is suddenly and violently attacked.

Clive Baxter's work on what he calls "primary perception" in plants is well known, and one of his most exciting experiments is worth dwelling on. Baxter is a polygraph recorder specialist. As one of the leading authorities on the use of the lie detector, Baxter was called in 1964 to testify in Congress on the use of recording devices in government. Currently, he is the director of his own school in New York City, where police officers improve their skills.

Baxter made an accidental discovery; he found that plants wired to a lie detector apparently sensed when he approached them with the intent to harm. They seemed to be reading his mind.
Months of research began. In one experiment, three philodendrons were placed in three separate rooms. Each was connected to a writing device, and the room was sealed. In a separate room, there was a large pot of boiling water on the fire.

A device was constructed, programmed to drop a large number of live ocean shrimp into boiling water at an arbitrarily scheduled time. There was no one in the rooms where the plants stood, and no one knew exactly when the shrimp would be boiled alive. Previous experiments convinced Baxter that plants respond to human thought; now he was interested in whether there is communication between all living beings. Will plants respond to the mass death of shrimp?

The experiment was repeated seven times. In five cases out of seven, after the shrimp were thrown into boiling water, the writing devices registered strong manifestations of activity. Baxter was interested in the following: "Could it be that when a living cell dies, it sends a signal to other living cells?" Now, after seven years of experimentation, he is sure of the answer. "I would put it this way: any living organism that is suddenly killed is sure to send a message. More gradual dying includes preparations for death, and we find that in such a case, few or no plants react at all." If this applies to the death of a person as well, then sudden, accidental, violent death must be one of the most frequently "recognized" by friends and family.

Baxter later discovered that his plants not only "sympathized" with dying shrimp, but responded to all sorts of life forms. They reacted very strongly to an egg being broken in the room. This makes it possible to believe that plants are aware of all vital manifestations and that when these vital manifestations die, they send signals in all directions - messages that can be received by receptive recipients.

Apparently, this is exactly what happened to twins Bobby Jean and Betty Jo Eller of Purley, North Carolina. From birth, the girls were inseparable so much that they did not become fully personalities. Betty Jou was her sister's shadow in every way - in thought, desire, action. When Bobbie Jean got sick, her sister got sick.

Shortly after the twins graduated from high school, their parents noticed that the character of Bobbie Jean and Betty Jou began to change. Bobbie could sit for hours staring into space, refusing to talk to anyone. And, as usual, after a while, the sister began to behave just as strangely. The girls, deeply attached to each other, continued to move further and further away from outside world. They did not leave their room and cut off contact with friends and family. In January 1961, Bobby and Betty were placed in the Bronton State mental asylum in Morgantown, where he was diagnosed with schizophrenia. For a whole year they were kept on medication and used intensive psychiatric therapy. But no one could penetrate their world. In 1962, the doctors decided to separate the sisters and placed them in opposite wings of the building. They were not supposed to be in contact with each other. Doctors hoped that mental isolation could destroy the strange bond between the sisters.

For weeks, it looked like it might work. Then one spring evening, Bobby had a catatonic seizure. Shortly after midnight, the head nurse discovered that she had died. Realizing the unusual closeness of the girls, in alarm for Betty Joe, she called her department. Betty Jou was found dead on the floor. Both girls lay curled up in a fetal position, both on their right side.

Dr. John C. Rees of the North Carolina Pathologists Society performed an autopsy and ruled out the possibility of suicide. Leaving the "cause of death" box blank on the death certificate forms, he said, "I find no visible evidence of injury or illness that could lead to death." As usual in life, so in death, Betty Jou followed her sister. The psychiatric scientists who studied the case were forced to admit that the first death, that of Bobbie Jean, was felt by her sister, who immediately lost her will to live.

The case of the North Carolina sisters is not unique. At the Jeffersonian College of Medicine in Philadelphia, Dr. Thomas Duane, head of the Department of Ophthalmology, and Dr. Thomas Behrendt have been studying the biorhythmic patterns of the brains of a large number of twins. Each of the twins was placed in a separate room and both were taken electroencephalograms - EEG. Duane writes in Science that when one of the twins had an alpha rhythm (8 to 12 hertz), the EEG sensors of the other, in a distant room, recorded the same thing. The same coincidence of the rhythms of the biocurrents of the brain is observed even when the twins are placed on different floors of the building.

There is no special telepathic communication between the twins here; synchronization of rhythms occurs quite naturally on a subconscious level. Researchers believe that twins may be predisposed to telepathy due to the great similarity in the structure of their central nervous system and brain. The genetic commonality of twins is known to cause the appearance of similar wrinkles, gray hair, baldness, the destruction of the same teeth, and even the simultaneous appearance of cancer. This explains the tendency for twins to die at the same age.

There is evidence that death can not only be recognized, but also predicted. Even for a few months. AT last years scientists are studying the possibility of predicting death long before any physical sign - thinness or pallor. Scientists from the University of Chicago, after serious studies in developmental psychology, found that old people experience various psychological changes about a year before their end.

Dr. Morton E. Lieberman of the Pritzker Medical School began looking for psychic signs of impending death after talking to a nurse. She claimed she could predict the death of her nursing home patients about a month in advance because, as she put it, "they start acting differently." Dr. Lieberman became so interested that he began research.

In a three-year experiment, Dr. Lieberman administered carefully designed tests to eighty men and women between the ages of sixty-five and ninety-one who were free of any physical or mental illness at the time the study began. Forty people died in the year after the end of the study. Dr. Lieberman compared the test scores of the deceased with those of the survivors who lived, on average, three years longer. He found that those who died within a year had a lower level of adjustment to reality, less energy. For example, they performed poorly on so-called "cognitive function" tests, such as being able to memorize pairs of unrelated words, and were less prone to introspection than members of the other group.

Those who are approaching death, Lieberman explains, “avoid introspection, fearing that they will notice it.” Those who were approaching death lacked perseverance and aggressiveness, they were more submissive and dependent compared to others. Finally, in thirty four out of forty deaths per year showed an awareness - usually on a subconscious level - of approaching death.When they were shown a series of pictures of old people in various situations and asked to describe what they had drawn, this group showed a tendency to either directly describe deaths (for example, rescuing a drowning man), or abstractly, like mysterious journeys to unknown lands.This suggests that dying is a much longer process than doctors think.

Dr. Lieberman believes that the psychological changes that appear in old people show how the approach of death correlates with the physical process of dying. Perhaps, he says, "these are bodily signals that are given mental expression." Sometimes patients themselves have a premonition of death. "Several patients have told me, 'I won't live a year,'" says Dr. Lieberman, "and they were right." However, for everyone, the knowledge of impending death could exist at a subconscious level. Dr. Lieberman believes that if one of those whose death was close allowed himself to introspection, he could perceive the call of death. It is quite possible that after appropriate training we can learn to recognize in years or months the moment of our own natural death.

The nurse who got Dr. Lieberman interested in the psychology of aging was able to understand subtle changes in the mood and behavior of her charges, although she didn't understand how she could predict death so accurately. But psychics are more sensitive to these and other changes that herald death. In his autobiography, "Beyond Coincidence," psychic Alex Tanu cites numerous cases where he accurately predicted the death of a perfectly healthy person weeks or months in advance.

While doing aura reading, Tanu advised the young woman not to marry the man she was engaged to: he had almost no aura. "I didn't have the heart to tell her that he was on the brink of death," writes Tanu. A few weeks later, the woman wrote to Tan: "You told me in response to a question about the person who accompanied me that you did not see a future for me with this person. He was found dead of a heart attack next to the bed on Sunday morning. Sincerely, Florence Wilson" .

On another occasion, a woman wrote to Tanu about her husband's poor health. "What do you see in the future for him?" she asked. “And this time,” Tanu replies, “I saw death. And since the woman asked me a question so directly, I decided to answer her also directly. I wrote to her that her husband had brain cancer and he would die from this.” Subsequently, this woman wrote to Tan: “Regarding your prediction of a malignant tumor in my husband, which, in your opinion, should have led to his death. Eight months after your prediction, my husband died of cancer of the lungs and brain. Yours sincerely, Mrs. Eleanor D. Murray, South Portland, Maine."

Hundreds of doctors and nurses have reported seeing "ghosts", "haze", "clouds" and "colorful lights" around a person's body at the time of death. There are also more subtle harbingers of death - physical, psychological and psychic. Drs. William Green, Sidney Goldstein, and Arthur Moss of Rochester, New York, studied the medical records of patients who died suddenly. The data show that the majority of these patients were depressed from a week to several months before sudden death. In an article in Akives Internap Medicine, doctors claim that depression can be * caused by hormonal changes, it prepares a central nervous system to accept death. What leads to depression in the first place? Perhaps their depression came from the realization, however peripheral, that they would soon die.

One man of fifty-five years worked for a long time at the Eastman Kodak Plant in Rochester, New York, and was always rather disorganized and irresponsible, both in regard to work and to that which had to do with the family. One summer, he began to put everything in order both at work and at home. He was just obsessed with it. He felt depressed but physically healthy, yet he double-checked his insurance, paid off overdue bills, wrote to friends he hadn't spoken to in years, and ended all business correspondence. Shortly after completing these labors, he died of a heart attack. Looking back, the wife of the deceased realizes that he knew something about the approach of death. If we collect the testimonies of doctors, it turns out that the depression that they observe in all patients does not cause death, but is the result of a premonition of death.

Another kind of major depression is one of the five "stages of death" as defined by thanatologist Dr. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross. The case of Mary Sparks, a Florida businesswoman, illustrates the five stages of Dr. Kubler-Ross.

Mary Sparks felt that she was about to die. She didn't know if she had this sensation before or after she first noticed the lump under her right breast. “I put the thought of it out of my head,” she told her twenty-five-year-old daughter Katya shortly before her death. Mary had so successfully repressed her fear of death that for more than a year she ignored the bump, which she suspected was growing. When the tumor was presumably diagnosed as malignant and the radical mastectomy failed to stop the cancer from spreading, Mary allowed herself to die. But not at once. First, she went through phases of "denial", "anger", "deal", "depression" and "acceptance".

Denial is the first reaction of a dying person: "No, not me." This, according to Dr. Kubler-Ross, is a typical reaction. “This allows the patient to pull himself together and, over time, resort to other, less drastic methods of protection.
Denial eventually leads to deep anger: "Why me?" A fifty-five-year-old dentist dying of cancer told Dr. Kubler-Ross: “An old man I remember from childhood is walking down our street. He is eighty-two years old and no one in the world needs him. old George, but with me?"

Anger turns into a deal - an act that often imperceptibly delays the moment of execution of the sentence. A difficult patient may suddenly become sociable; he expects a reward for good behavior, that is, an extension of life.

After the transaction phase, the patient usually falls into deep depression. This stage, according to Dr. Kubler-Ross, has a positive side: the patient weighs the terrible cost of death, preparing to part with everything and everyone he loves.

Finally, acceptance comes when the doomed person submits to the judgment. During this phase, some begin to talk about visions, voices, tunnels and bright lights - things that people in a near-death state usually see. About a week before her death, Mary Sparks, telling her daughter about the peace she was experiencing, said: "If I had known that it would be like this, I would have accepted death from the very beginning, and not resisted it and would not behave like a child" .

If Mary Sparks had been a patient of Dr. Kubler-Ross, she would have been told about the five stages of dying at once. More importantly, she would be assured that there is a sixth stage - life after death. "I know that there is life after death," says Dr. Kubler-Ross, "I don't have a shadow of a doubt." This is a powerful statement from one of the leading professionals in the field of death studies and a highly regarded specialist. How can Dr. Kubler-Ross be so certain?

In the early 1970s, having already worked for some time in thanatology, Dr. Kubler-Ross experienced her first OBE - just the kind of separation from the physical body, coinciding exactly with what happens in a state of clinical death. After a busy day with about eight dying patients, Dr. Kubler-Ross could rest. Her OBE started spontaneously. Later, she could not believe the woman who was in the same room and said that she looked dead - no breathing, no pulse. Knowing about near-death images, but little informed at the time about OBE research, Dr. Kubler-Ross began to read everything that was done in the field.

She soon visited Robert Monroe in Virginia. Dr. Kubler-Ross had read about his OBE in his book Out-of-Body Journeys and was impressed by Monroe's experiments with Dr. Charles Tart of the University of California. By applying the relaxation technique, Monroe developed his abilities and at the same time taught people how to experience OBE, and Dr. Kubler-Ross learned instantly. One night in Virginia, while trying to sleep, Dr. Kubler-Ross had a profound experience:

“I had the most incredible experience in my entire life. If I try to put it in one sentence: I went through the death of each of my thousand patients. I mean physical pain, shortness of breath, agony, a plea for help. The pain is indescribable. There was no time for thought or for anything else, twice I managed to breathe between two unbearable attacks of pain, I could only catch my breath for a split second, and I prayed - I think I prayed to God - for a shoulder to lean on , about the shoulder of a person, and represented a male shoulder on which she could lay her head.

She continued to beg the Lord to help her, and again the voice was heard: "It will not be given to you." She was beside herself with rage: "I have helped people so much, and now no one will help me." This explosion of rage suddenly made her realize that she had to do this alone and no one could help her, and immediately her suffering stopped and was replaced by "the most incredible experience of rebirth."

The experience of rebirth has been described by mystics, mediums and ordinary people, but perhaps no one before Dr. Kubler-Ross had such an experience and no special training. She is an astute observer, and one should consider her journey in detail, as she described them in an interview with Anne Nitzke of The Human Behavior. Light, as we shall see, plays a huge role in the rebirth of Dr. Kubler-Ross.

"It was so beautiful that there are not enough words to describe it. It all started with the vibration of the walls of my stomach, I looked - with open eyes, in full consciousness - and I said to myself:" This cannot be ", I mean, anatomically, it was physiologically impossible. They vibrated very quickly. And then everything in the room I looked at: my legs, the closet, the window - everything began to vibrate with a million molecules. Everything vibrated with incredible speed. And in front of me was something, more than anything I looked at her, focused on her, and she turned into a lotus bud. And as I looked - in growing amazement - incredibly beautiful colors, smells and sounds filled the room, the bud opened, turning into a beautiful flower.

Behind him rose the sunrise, the brightest light imaginable, but it did not hurt the eyes. And as the flower opened, all its fullness appeared in this life. At that moment, the light was open and full, as if the whole sun was concentrated here, and the flower was open and full. The vibration stopped, and a million molecules, including me - it was all part of the world - merged into one. I was part of it. And in the end, I thought, "I feel good because I'm a part of it all."

Dr. Kubler-Ross's impression was so deep that it lasted for months.
“The next morning I went outside, everything seemed incredible. I was in love with every leaf, every bird, even gravel. I tried to step without touching the gravel. And I said to the gravel:“ I can’t walk on you to not harm you. "They were as alive as I was, and I was part of this whole living universe. It took months for me to be able to describe all this with at least some suitable words."

Dr. Kubler-Ross' experience with what the mystics call "cosmic consciousness" only led her to assume that there is life after death, that there is a duration of things not only in space but also in time. She was finally convinced of the existence of life after death by the visit of a former patient, Mrs. Schwartz, who appeared after her death and funeral. As Dr. Kubler-Ross recounts her fourth-kind encounter with death, Mrs. Schwartz appeared in full human form to thank the doctor for his care and encourage her to continue her work with the dying. At first, Dr. Kubler-Ross thought she was hallucinating, but as Mrs. Schwartz's presence continued, she asked the visitor to write a few words and sign. The note is now with the priest, who also took part in the funeral of Mrs. Schwartz and who confirmed the authenticity of her handwriting.

Since then, Dr. Kubler-Ross often sees deceased patients and even recorded the voice of one of them, Willie. “I understand that this is too much,” says Dr. Kubler-Ross, “and I don’t want people to take everything on faith. I myself am quite skeptical. The scientist in me wanted Mrs. Schwartz to sign the note, although I knew it was she was the one who visited my office. And I needed to record Willie's voice. I listen to him and sometimes I think that all this is a huge incredible dream. I am not left with awe and a feeling of a miracle. "
Because of her "advanced" and stories about the world she saw, Dr. Kubler-Ross, who her colleagues at one time considered the leading scientist in this field, lost her credibility with many of them. But Dr. Kubler-Ross holds firm to his belief in life after death. Her experience of proving the duration of space, time, and matter is exactly what Dean W.R. Matthews offers a working definition of life after death. His hypothesis, which obviously has a biological meaning, says that "the center of consciousness that exists during life does not cease to exist after death, and therefore the experience of this center after death continues the experience of life, just as if a person woke up after a short sleep."

"Interesting newspaper. Incredible" No. 16 2012

A rhetorical question asked by the apostle Paul - "Death, when will you sting?" Everyone cares in one way or another. After all, it is not in vain that the Gospel says: “You know neither the day nor the hour.” And yet there are people in the world who are able to foresee the timing of their transition to. The basis of this ability is the same multidimensionality of the human body ...

The forty-year-old driver, who had never complained about his health before, unexpectedly told his wife that he felt the approach of death. He instructed her in detail how, in what clothes and where exactly he should be buried, what monument should be placed on his grave. The frightened woman begged him to quit his job, fearing a possible accident. But the trouble came from a completely different direction: about two months after the conversations, the driver died of a massive heart attack right in his house.

A young woman, having arrived from the dacha and going to bed, somehow casually said: “Well, I'm tired. Nothing, I'll rest in the other world. The next day, she and her husband had an accident: a truck hit their car. The woman died at the scene of the accident, and her husband was taken to the hospital in serious condition.

The famous German philosopher F. Schelling, together with his beloved wife Caroline, came to the city where he was born and raised to live for some time in his parents' house. Once Carolina, standing at the window of the house and looking at the picturesque landscape, suddenly said: “Schelling, will you believe that I will die here?” Of course, the philosopher was amazed at the question of a young and quite healthy woman. However, after a couple of weeks, Carolina contracted a dangerous infectious disease and died, despite all the efforts of the best doctors.

The French priest Berengier Sauniere, who lived in the 19th century, unexpectedly invited an undertaker to his place and asked to take measurements from himself to make a coffin. The undertaker shrugged his shoulders and completed the order. A few days after the order was completed, the Abbé Sauniere died suddenly of apoplexy.

Many such examples are known. Doctors from America W. Green, S. Goldstein, A. Moss and others, studying the phenomenon of death, examined thousands of case histories of suddenly deceased patients. Their research showed that most people had a premonition of their death in advance. However, their forebodings did not lie in prophetic utterances or advance preparations for the funeral, but in a special psychological state and the desire to put things in order.

It turns out that a lot of people shortly before death experience depression, which lasts from a week to several months before sudden death. Some scientists have suggested that this depression is caused by hormonal changes in the body, and its psychological function is that this depression, as it were, prepares the central nervous system to accept death. Be that as it may, these psychological changes indicate that on a supernatural level, many of the people feel the impending transition to a different plane of existence.

The changes that occur in the human body before death concern not only the sphere of his psyche, but, above all, the state of his energy complex.
In the Tibetan "Book of the Dead" it is not by chance that it is said that before death, the auric radiation of a person goes out and almost completely disappears. The observations of psychics in our time have confirmed the correctness of the conclusions of ancient teachings.

So, for example, in the book by A. Landsberg and C. Faye "Meetings with what we call death" there is a story of a psychic who, in his words, saw death, standing on one of the upper floors of a skyscraper waiting for an elevator. When the elevator approached and the door opened, the psychic was horrified: all four people standing in the cabin did not have an aura. Another person entered the elevator from the landing, and immediately his auric glow disappeared. “This,” the psychic said, “I wanted to tell them to go out and wait for another elevator, but I knew that no one would listen to me.” When the elevator went, its cabin fell off and flew 22 floors: for some reason, the emergency brake did not work. Of course, all five people in the elevator died.

Another well-known psychic in America, Alex Tanu, in his autobiographical book “Beyond Coincidence,” also cited many cases of his accurate predictions of the death of apparently healthy people weeks or months before their death.
Knowing how to "read the aura," Alex Tanu advised a young woman not to marry the man she was engaged to: he had almost no aura. True, the psychic did not tell her about the reasons for this advice - according to him, he did not have the courage to do so. A few weeks later, the woman wrote to Tan that her fiancé was found dead on the floor next to the bed: he died of a heart attack.

American researchers A. Landsberg and C. Faye cited the following case:

December 1970 - Linda Wilson, a housewife from New Jersey, came to her neighbors for Christmas dinner and immediately felt something unpleasant. “I felt it,” she said. “I always felt that my nostrils were freezing, as if I were outside in the cold.” She found the smell disgusting, overpowering the scent of the Christmas tree and delicious food on the dining room table. The husband of the neighbor who invited Linda to dinner had Parkinson's disease, but no one, including doctors, expected him to die. Linda Wilson did not enjoy the festive dinner that day. “I kept my eyes on Peter all evening. It was madness, but I did not leave the certainty that he would soon die. He ate with a ravenous appetite, and his blush was all over his cheek, but as soon as I glanced at him, I shuddered. Nothing like this has ever happened to me before.” A week later, Peter fell ill with pneumonia. He died 5 days later.

Here is a domestic phenomenon. Engineer Igor K. from his youth has the ability to anticipate the death of other people. Needless to say, this ability does not bring him any joy. It all started with the fact that when he was somehow in the family circle, one of his distant relatives began to talk about her health problems and that, perhaps, she would soon undergo liver surgery. At some point in the conversation, Igor looked at the woman - and everything went cold inside him. Instead of a familiar face, he saw a dead mask - a lifeless, greenish tint. The illusion was so strong that Igor, referring to the desire to smoke, left the room. Of course, he decided that it seemed to him. Having smoked a cigarette in the courtyard of the house, Igor again entered the house and sat down at the table. But as soon as he raised his eyes to a relative, the terrible vision was repeated. Igor did not know what to think, but he did not tell anyone about it.
A couple of weeks later, his relative underwent surgery. But a few days later she was gone - the liver disease turned out to be much more severe than the doctors thought.

A few years after that incident, a young worker came to the construction team led by Igor. A strong, healthy-looking man, talking with Igor, said that he wanted to quit his previous job in order to join his team. During the conversation, Igor's gaze accidentally fell on the guy's hands and ... a familiar cold penetrated the engineer. The young man's hand, lying on the table, suddenly seemed to him the hand of a corpse - almost blue, as if ossified. "God! Again!" thought Igor. But then he forced himself to cast aside gloomy thoughts.

Soon the young man filled out the documents and began to work. But he did not work in the brigade for long. The premonition did not deceive the engineer. Literally two weeks later, an accident occurred at a construction site: a poorly fixed multi-ton slab broke off. Under the stove at that moment there was just a worker recently accepted into the brigade ...

What can be expected and how to respond to the process of natural death.

No one can predict the moment of death. But the doctors and nurses who care for the dying know certain symptoms of the body dying. These signs of impending death are inherent in the process of natural dying (as opposed to the symptoms of certain illnesses that a person may suffer from).

Not all symptoms of dying show up in every person, but most people, in the last days or hours, show some combination of the following:

1. Loss of appetite

Energy needs are decreasing. The person may begin to resist or refuse to eat or drink at all, or take only small amounts of soft food (such as warm porridge). The first will probably give up meat that is difficult to chew. Even favorite foods are consumed in small quantities.

Just before death, the dying person may be physically unable to swallow.

Reaction: do not stuff; follow the person's desires even though you may be concerned about losing interest in food. Offer ice chips periodically ( so in the text - ice chips - I don't know what it is, translator's note,perevodika.ru), popsicles, or a sip of water. Use a moistened warm washcloth to wipe around your mouth and apply lip balm to keep them moist and supple.

2. Excessive fatigue and sleep

A person may begin to sleep for most of the day and night as the metabolism slows down and the reduced amount of food and water contributes to dehydration. It becomes difficult to awaken him or her from sleep. Fatigue intensifies so much that understanding, perception of the environment begins to become clouded.

Response: let sleep, do not wake or push the sleeping person. Assume that everything you say can be heard, as hearing is believed to persist even when the person is unconscious, in a coma, or otherwise unresponsive.

3. Increasing physical weakness

Decreased diet and lack of energy lead to a lack of physical strength to perform even such actions as lifting the head or moving on the bed. The person may have difficulty even taking a sip of water through a straw.

Response: Focus on making the person comfortable.

4. Clouding of consciousness or disorientation

All organs, including the brain, begin to gradually fail. Higher consciousness tends to change. "Only in rare cases do people remain fully conscious when they die," says palliative care physician Ira Biok, author of Dying Well.

A person may not know, not understand where he or she is, or who else is in the room, may talk to or answer people who are not in the room (see "Passing Away: What to Expect When Witnessing a Loved One" s Death" - "Death: what to expect, being present at death loved one”), may say seemingly meaningless things, may get the tenses mixed up, or may become restless and start picking at the bedding.

Response: Stay calm and comforting. Talk to the person gently, and identify yourself when you approach.

5. Difficulty breathing

Inhalation and exhalation become intermittent, irregular, and labored. You can hear the specific “Cheyne-Stokes breathing”: a loud, deep breath, then a pause without breathing (apnea) lasting from five seconds to a minute, then a loud, deep exhalation and the cycle slowly repeats.

Sometimes excessive secretions cause loud throat sounds when inhaling and exhaling, what some people call a "death rattle."

Reaction: Stopping breathing or loud wheezing may cause alarm in those present, but the dying person is not aware of this altered breathing; focus on total comfort. Positions that may help: head or upper body, well supported, slightly raised on a pillow, or head or body lying, tilted slightly to one side. Wipe your mouth with a damp cloth and moisten your lips with lip balm or petroleum jelly.

If there is a lot of phlegm, allow it to drain naturally from the mouth, as its selection may increase salivation. A humidifier in the room can help. Some people are given oxygen for comfort. Be calm, indicate your presence by stroking your hand or speaking soft words.

6. Withdrawal

As the body fails, the dying person may gradually lose interest in their surroundings. He or she may begin to mumble something unintelligible, or stop talking, stop answering questions, or simply turn away.

Sometimes, a few days before withdrawing into himself for the last time, a dying person can amaze his loved ones with an unexpected burst of unsettling attention. This can take less than an hour or a whole day.

Reaction: Know that this is a natural part of the dying process and not a reflection of your relationship. Show your physical presence by touching the dying person and if you feel the need, the need, then continue to speak without demanding an answer. if it feels appropriate without demanding anything back. Treasure these moments of unsettling attention if and when they happen, because they are almost always fleeting.

7. Changes in urination

A small entry (as the person loses interest in eating and drinking) means a small exit. Low blood pressure, part of the process of death (and therefore untreated in this case like other symptoms), also contributes to kidney failure. Concentrated urine is brownish, reddish, or tea-colored.

In the later stages of dying, loss of bladder and bowel control may occur.

Response: Hospice caregivers sometimes decide that a catheter is needed, although not in the final hours of life. Kidney failure can increase the presence of toxins in the blood and contribute to a peaceful coma before death. Add a mattress topper, put on new sheets.

8. Swelling of the legs and ankles

Since the kidneys are not able to excrete fluid, it can accumulate in parts of the body far from the heart - especially in the legs and ankles. These places, and sometimes also the hands and face, may swell and become swollen.

Response: When the tumor appears to be directly related to the death process, usually no specific treatment (eg, diuretics) is given. (The tumor is the result of the natural death process, not its cause.)

9. Cooling hands and feet

Hours or minutes before death, circulation to the periphery of the body stops to help the vital organs and therefore the limbs (hands, feet, fingers and toes) become cold. The nail beds may also look pale or bluish.

Response: A warm blanket will help the person stay warm until he or she forgets. A person may complain of heaviness in the legs, so leave them uncovered.

10 Spotted Veins

One of the latest signs of approaching death is that skin that has been uniformly pale or ashen develops many purplish/reddish/bluish patches. This is the result of reduced blood circulation. The first spots may appear on the soles of the feet.

Response: No special steps need to be taken.

Note: In different people, these common signs of impending death may appear in different sequences and in different combinations. If a person is on life support (respirator, feeding tube), the process of dying may be different. The signs of death listed here describe the process of natural death.

Premonition of death is a common occurrence in people's lives. In some cases, this is a reflection of one's own fears, an illusion formed by the human subconscious. In this case, there is no serious reason for worrying.

What can it mean - the feeling of death

Premonition of one's own death- this is a sign from above that can be sent: either by his own or by his Angels, which he deserved in this and past lives. This is a sign indicating that death has come too close, that you need to reconsider your life, stop and realize your mistakes. This is nothing more than a positive signal to you for the purification and healing of your Soul.

It is worth distinguishing between a premonition of death and a dream - when a person dreamed that he or his loved one had died. It is not necessary to consider these phenomena as one whole - these are things that are different in meaning.

What does it mean when a person dreamed of his own death or the death of a loved one? Often this means that a person has parted with something unnecessary. This is a sign indicating the beginning of something good in his life.

Possible reasons why a person dies prematurely

• 1. Choosing the wrong path in life.

A simple example: a person was destined to become a highly qualified specialist in the field of medicine, but turned onto the path of the underworld.

• 2. A person is inactive, does not strive and does not set any goals for himself. The feeling of death can also arise when a person has lost the meaning of life and does not want to look for it.
• 3. Accumulated a lot of sins and aggression.

- this is a sign with the help of which the Higher Forces show that a person has radically strayed from his true path. And if such a sign is given, this does not mean at all that you will die soon, but on the contrary, they give you to understand that everything can be changed, that you need to act, taking the path of correction.

Life from time to time gives secret signs to each of us, you just need to learn to understand and accept them with respect. So it's better to pay attention to your life, to

Unfortunately, after life there is always death. Now science is unable to prevent old age and its inevitable lethal consequences. Relatives and friends of seriously ill patients need to be prepared for this. What does a bedridden patient experience before death? How should caregivers respond to signs of approaching death? We will talk about this below.

Phases of death

There are several phases of a person's condition that occur before his death. Signs of the first stage ("pre-active phase") can begin 2 weeks before the terrible event. During this period, the patient begins to consume less food and liquid than usual, there are pauses in breathing, wound healing worsens, and swelling appears. Also, the patient can claim an imminent death and report that he saw dead people.

Then the following phases follow:

• clinical death (signs of vital activity disappear, but metabolic processes still occur in the cells);
• biological death (almost complete cessation of physiological processes in the body);
• final death (final phase).

Signs of approaching death

Signs of death in a bedridden patient may be different in each case. There are several main ones:

Certain diseases cause specific symptoms. Thus, the signs of death in a cancer patient are often manifested in the form of pain, nausea, confusion, restlessness and shortness of breath (with a stroke, such symptoms are less common).

It should also be noted that low blood pressure or prolonged cessation of breathing (or if the patient is constantly asleep) are not reliable indicators of imminent death in all cases. Some patients with these symptoms may recover suddenly and live for a week, a month, or even more. Only God knows when death will come.

How to behave properly with loved ones

What should relatives and friends do if they see signs of approaching death? It is always very difficult to talk to a dying person. There is no need to give false promises and hopes for recovery. Tell the patient that his last wishes will be granted. He should not think that something is being hidden from him. If a person wants to talk about life and its last moments, you need to do it, and not try to hush up the topic and say something distant. Before death, let the patient know that he is not alone, say words of consolation.

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