What Hospice Workers See at the Deathbed
A UK-wide survey of 104 Marie Curie palliative care staff found that 97% had witnessed at least one deathbed phenomenon in five years — an average of 7.7 each. Visions of deceased relatives, terminal lucidity in dementia patients, clocks stopping at the moment of death. And yet a chart audit found only 8.3% of these events ever get documented. This episode works through the research literature on end-of-life experiences: what palliative nurses, doctors, and death doulas actually report, how religious and non-religious staff converge on calling these experiences spiritual at identical rates…
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