“Here’s one phenomenon that happens during the ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ and ᴅʏɪɴɢ process that medical professionals, like myself, cannot explain,” she said.
“This is when someone is really sick and almost towards actively ᴅʏɪɴɢ, meaning dying within a few days, and then suddenly they look like they are ‘better’.
“They have a little more of a personality, kind of laughing, talking, joking but then usually they ᴅɪᴇ within a few days after this, sometimes even that night and it happens to probably a third of our hospice patients, so it happens quite a bit.”
McFadden emphasized the need of informing families about the rally, also known as terminal lucidity, so that they are ready for what follows next.
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