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Sep 13, 2023 · Terminal lucidity is a phenomenon in which someone who has previously lost the ability to communicate or engage in other meaningful behaviors suddenly regains mental clarity or cognition. Usually ...
Suppose a person with a long-term mental illness displays a moment of “unusually enhanced mental clarity,” but moments later is hit by a bus and dies. It doesn’t seem like this should count as an instance of terminal lucidity. But, as a case of unusual mental clarity occurring shortly before death, it falls under Nahm’s definition.
Mar 1, 2019 · Another example of one of these moments happened to Anna, a student who was in a class for gerontology students at a local university that uses my book as a text.As we chatted, she told the class ...
Feb 2, 2023 · A person experiencing Terminal Lucidity suddenly awakens from confusion, drowsiness, or an otherwise non-responsive state, recognizing family and friends, speaking to them with clarity, moving his body, and often asking for a favorite food or drink. This state of energy and clarity may last for minutes, days, or a few weeks before death.
I think more often than not, my situation seems to be more the normal. Assume that you won't get that sudden moment of clarity before they die and play it safe, get all the things out that you need to while the person dying still can understand it. OP's post (while not trying to downplay it) is like a movie script ending.
Feb 22, 2022 · A hyper-aware mental state, or very clear consciousness. This may be in a waking or dream state. An out-of-body experience, usually in the form of you hovering above your deathbed. Possibly caused ...
