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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.
Terminal illness or end-stage disease is a disease that cannot be cured or adequately treated and is expected to result in the death of the patient. This term is more commonly used for progressive diseases such as cancer, dementia, advanced heart disease, and for HIV/AIDS, or long COVID in bad cases, rather than for injury.
Since the 1960s, laws governing the determination of death have been implemented in all countries that have active organ transplantation programs. The first European country to adopt brain death as a legal definition (or indicator) of death was Finland in 1971, while in the United States, the state of Kansas had enacted a similar law earlier. [9]
Most of these near-death experiences resulted from serious injury affecting the body or brain. [43] A number of more contemporary sources report the incidence of near death experiences as: 17% amongst critically ill patients, in nine prospective studies from four different countries. [44] 10–20% of people who have come close to death. [11]
This model is the personal reality of the dying person, where fear, refusal, and acceptance form the core of the dying person's confrontation with death. [35] Ernst Engelke took up Kastenbaum's approach and developed it further with the thesis, "Just as each person's life is unique, so is their death unique.
“Nine out of ten people would benefit from palliative care, but far too many miss out, genuine choice at the end of life cannot exist unless dying people are able to access high quality ...
Cotard's syndrome withdraws the person with the condition from other people due to neglect of their personal hygiene and physical health. Delusions of negation of self prevent the patient from making sense of external reality, which then produces a distorted view of the external world. Such delusions of negation are usually found in ...
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