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A retired doctor in England recently caused a stir after revealing what the last moments were like before death. She is Kathryn Mannix (64), who spent 30 years as a palliative care doctor with a mission to eliminate the fear experienced by patients.
Dr. Kathryn explained that the body when death approaches is similar to an old cell phone that fails to charge the battery. He also said that many patients were unconscious towards the end of their lives.
“This is not a scary mental condition, this is a condition of not knowing anything,” he said, quoted by the Daily Mail.
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“The first thing that is visible is that the body starts to run out of energy, almost like when you have an old cell phone and the battery isn’t working. And the charger is sleeping,” he added.
Apart from cellphones that can’t be charged, Dr. Kathryn said dying patients usually don’t feel hungry or thirsty. The patient said he should sleep more to replenish the body’s energy. However, over time the patient becomes unconscious.
“They don’t die because they don’t eat. They don’t eat because their bodies are dying,” he said again.
Furthermore, Dr. Kathryn also discussed what is called the ‘death rattle’, which is a hoarse sound that is often produced by someone who is close to death as a result of fluids such as saliva and bronchial secretions accumulating in the throat and upper chest.
“The brain runs a reflex breathing pattern that moves back and forth between moderately deep breathing that gradually becomes shallower. And then back to the beginning again, and back and forth between periods of moderately slow breathing, faster breathing, back to slow breathing again,” said Dr. Kathryn.
“Now if you’ve never seen it before, you might think that the person is breathing, perhaps rapidly but shallowly, having trouble breathing or gasping for air or feeling uncomfortable,” he added.
According to Dr. Kathryn, knowing facts or signs like this will not make death any less sad. On the contrary, it actually makes death seem less scary.
“And at the end of a person’s life there will usually be one phase of slow breathing. There will be an exhale that will not be another exhale after that, which is not at all what one would expect,” he concluded.
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2023-10-27 10:06:29
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