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The feeling can also be a transient side effect of adenosine administration, likely due to its activation of adenosine receptors. Due to adenosine's extremely short half-life, this effect is typically short-lived. [3] [4] A sense of impending doom can also present itself as a postoperative complication encountered after surgery. [5]
Terminal lucidity (also known as rallying, terminal rally, the rally, end-of-life-experience, energy surge, the surge, or pre-mortem surge) [1] is an unexpected return of consciousness, mental clarity or memory shortly before death in individuals with severe psychiatric or neurological disorders.
Death anxiety has been found to affect people of differing demographic groups as well, such as men versus women, young versus old, etc. [4] The sociological and psychological consensus is that death anxiety is universally present across all societies, but that different cultures manifest aspects of death anxiety in differing ways and degrees.
If you feel a sense of impending doom, are convinced something bad is going to happen, have a heavy, sinking feeling, and/or physical symptoms such as shakiness, sweating, or nausea, don’t ...
Terminal dehydration is dehydration to the point of death. Some scholars make a distinction between "terminal dehydration" and "termination by dehydration". [1] Courts in the United States [2] generally do not recognize prisoners as having a right to die by voluntary dehydration, since they view it as suicide. [2] [3]
Nicole Linton, a nurse charged in the killing of five people and an unborn fetus during a fiery L.A. crash, made online searches about death and suicide before the deadly collision, prosecutors said.
The article Betwixt Life and Death: Case Studies of the Cotard Delusion (1996) describes a contemporary case of Cotard's syndrome which occurred in a Scotsman whose brain was damaged in a motorcycle accident: [The patient's] symptoms occurred in the context of more general feelings of unreality and [of] being dead.
The phenomenon has been observed to occur several minutes after the removal of medical ventilators used to pump air in and out of brain-dead patients. [4] It also occurs during testing for apnea—that is, suspension of external breathing and motion of the lung muscles—which is one of the criteria for determining brain death used for example by the American Academy of Neurology.