What happens before dying

• April 26, 2024

The death it is undoubtedly one of the issues that most attracts attention because of all the uncertainty that surrounds it; perhaps because of that, it is one of the topics that fascinates and intrigues the humanity .

From thinking about the existence of a life in the beyond, to the imagination of a return in another body or, of course, the mere extinction .

In popular culture many legends, myths and theories that surround the subject have been developed, such as the one that says that before the face dies it suffers a very special modification.

Renata Roa , Consultant in Public Image and specialist in Physical Image , explains that in visual communication there is something called mask of death and that is presented in the last days of the person.

"This consists of a darkening around the eyes, in the part of the temporal, which is accompanied by a thinning of the skin ... ", says the specialist.

However, Renata Roa warns that care must be taken not to confuse it with the natural result of some diseases ; Sometimes a darkening may occur due to problems in the liver , for situations of a lot stress or constant anger.

"... When it comes to the closeness of death, it is seen as a mask, Eastern cultures think that it is presented when the soul begins to leave the body, as a way of getting ready ...", confirms Renata.

This signal is common in people who have Cancer . "I have seen this mask in people who suffer from this disease terminal and yes, there is a brutal relaxation in the area of ​​the eyes ... ", adds the consultant.

"... Something that also stands out is the loss of brightness in the eyes, which is strongly linked to the vitality and passion that people have for life. Without a doubt, it is a way of observing that death is near, "he concludes.

Voices from beyond

This is a very popular myth, hence that on the deathbed, people decide to talk to their loved one and, on occasion, even put their favorite music, so that they can take a pleasant memory.

But this could be a lie, he says Marco Bernal Ramírez , General Emergency Coordinator of the Health Department of Chimalhuacán . "What I have come to appreciate in patients who die in emergency rooms for different reasons (traumatic or for disease ), is that the first thing they lose in matters of the senses is orientation ".

Bernal Ramírez states that "... as for the loss of hearing, smell, taste, touch and sight, that is very subjective, because it is not the same perception that a conscious person has to one in the middle of death bed".

In this regard, experts comment that when the patient dies, the brain activity cease The ear is, in its principle, a mechanical instrument that continues to receive and transmit sound, but when this impulse reaches the nervous part, there is no activity.

On the other hand, there is the case of people who have been declared dead (cardiovascular, non-cerebral death) and are revived after three, five and even 60 minutes, and who are able to refer conversations that occurred when they were already "dead" , because its brain I kept receiving the signals.

The last scent

It is also said that the environment is perceived as odor to death when someone is moments away from dying. That is a very common comment, mainly when it comes to older people.

But what is that, is there really a smell of death? Marco Bernal , confirms that the aroma does exist. When a person is in his last days, his sphincters, specifically the anal, relax and leave all the intestinal gas that it contains. Then the well-known smell of death is nothing but intestinal gas.

Be that as it may, what has been discovered is that the proximity of death by disease it is feasible to recognize it by the signals of corporal degradation, and in the case of injuries by accidents, by the disorientation that leaves vulnerable to the vascular irrigation and the nervous system , and that will inevitably lead to the decline of an existence.

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