Their extremities may feel hot or cold to our touch, and sometimes their nails might have a bluish tinge. ![]() Sometimes their pupils are unresponsive so are fixed and staring. Their eyes might be glassy or ‘milky’ and may be open or shut. What might we see in their body which can indicate that death draws nearer? Their face may appear quite pale, white, bluish or yellow if they are jaundiced. Choking can become an issue, and this is another reason why eating diminishes, as a way of protecting the person from that. At some point the swallowing reflex diminishes or becomes absent, so eating becomes harder. Eating at end of life can often make someone feel very unwell because their digestive system has effectively shut down already. Losing our appetite at this point is a very natural and normal phenomenon. If we can take on board that the body knows exactly what it is doing, it knows it does not need the fuel like it used to and it’s also trying to conserve energy for its vital functions, like maintaining a heartbeat, and taking a breath. This can be very distressing because as caring human beings we want to nourish and feed our loved ones because the underlying thought is, if you don’t eat, you will die and I don’t want you to die, so you must eat. Towards the last weeks and days they may refuse food altogether. A dying person’s need for food diminishes and they naturally eat less. She is talking about retrospectively realising that there has been a slowing down process and that it has been unfolding for a while, sometimes even un-noticed. ![]() It is not an exact science and many a medical professional has been confounded by patients improving unexpectedly, outliving a prognosis of death and even recovering spectacularly! That said, hospice nurses, palliative care nurses and doulas as well as many doctors have seen a lot of dying patients, and they do understand that there are definite indicators that the end is approaching when a patient has been declining over a period of time.ĭenys Cope RN, BSN, a hospice nurse from the USA puts it very well in her book Dying A Natural Passage when she says that “a person naturally begins to do things that conserve energy”. In particular, I am writing this blog because when my own mother died, had I known some of these things then, I would not have gone home that evening and then I would have been able to be with her when she died. It can be very helpful to understand the signs of impending death because it can inform decisions that you might make, such as should you stay or go right now, is this a good time to go on holiday or not or shall we call family members from abroad and so on. ![]() We all come to death in different ways but unless there is a sudden or traumatic death, there are recognisable signs which if we know what to look out for, can guide families and loved ones to know roughly where the dying person is on that trajectory. Fans of Have A Nice Life exhibit both cultic thought and action for good reason-it is perhaps a fanbase as dark and mysterious as the Antiochean’s, which the album itself revolves around.The way people die is entirely individual to them, a unique experience for each person. It feels more fresh and engaging with every listen and has held up as a remarkable piece of art. The corresponding album is rhythmic, primal and expansive, and is a gloomy-post-punk masterpiece-a mediation on death, loss and existence. ![]() Blurring the lines between novella, liner notes, and academic text, the zine itself presents an engrossing narrative. The 75-page booklet accompanying the deluxe format of Deathconsciousness details the dark and forgotten history of the Antiochean cult. Now, longtime HANL collaborator The Flenser will reissue Deathconsciousness on the long-requested CD format, with a deluxe packaging option, including the lengthy accompanying zine and housed in a heavy box. Seamlessly blending shoegaze, post punk, new wave, industrial and noise with unparalleled depth and weight, the album was originally released by Enemies List Home Recordings founded by HANL members Dan Barrett and Tim Macuga. Six years after its release the band followed up with 2014’s stunner The Unnatural World, and by then Deathconsciousness had become a force of influence and fanatic obsession. In 2008, Have A Nice Life released their now cult classic Deathconsciousness album to a whimper and critical non-interest.
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