The first sense people lose when they're close to dying, according to doctors
dailyrecord.co.ukDoctors have shared the important sign that someone is close to death - and it involves one of their senses being lost.What happens around the time of death is a hard topic to gain knowledge about, especially surrounding how the person is feeling and the kind of things that they experience.
This is because the patient is often too weak or drowsy to explain how they feel, and instead doctors have to rely on the accounts of those who are in the room with them, such as family and friends.
The Mirror reports that historically, death was something that happened very quickly - before modern medicines allowed dying patients to live longer.
For most people who die in this way, there's a sudden change that takes place around the last few days of life - known as "active dying".James Hallenbeck, a palliative-care specialist at Stanford University, said people tend to lose their senses and desires in a certain order.Writing in Palliative Care Perspectives, his guide to palliative care for physicians, he said: “First hunger and then thirst are lost.
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