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  2. Terminal lucidity - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Postmortem studies - Wikipedia

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    The researchers ask their participants or the families to consent to allowing them to study the loved one's brain, however there has been a falling rates of consent in the last few years. [1] Subsequently, researchers have to use indirect methods to study the locations and processes of the brain. [ 5 ]

  4. Stages of human death - Wikipedia

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    Up to 13 hours after death, eyeball cooling in pigs provides a reasonable estimate of time since death. [30] After 13 hours, muscle and rectal temperatures in pigs are better estimates of time since death. [31] In dogs: what changes and when. Eye K+ decreases from 1.5 hours after death to 7 hours after death. [32]

  5. Cadaveric spasm - Wikipedia

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    Cadaveric spasm is seen in cases of drowning victims when grass, weeds, roots or other materials are clutched, and provides evidence of life at the time of entry into the water. Cadaveric spasm often crystallizes the last activity one did before death and is therefore significant in forensic investigations, e.g. holding onto a knife tightly. [4]

  6. Brain death - Wikipedia

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    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]

  7. Dying To Be Free - The Huffington Post

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    “The brain changes, and it doesn’t recover when you just stop the drug because the brain has been actually changed,” Kreek explained. “The brain may get OK with time in some persons. But it’s hard to find a person who has completely normal brain function after a long cycle of opiate addiction, not without specific medication treatment.”

  8. How to protect your deceased loved one’s credit after death

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    Some criminals use obituaries, death certificates and other information to steal the identities of people who have died. They might open new accounts or commit other crimes under the deceased’s ...

  9. 10 weird things that can kill you almost instantly - AOL

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    The spice, in larger quantities, has a hallucinogenic effect, and when consumed in excess can cause psychosis and death. Number 5.Underestimating a cow. 22 a year. That is how many annual U.S ...