A hospice nurse has lifted the lid and revealed the six “unimaginable” things that happen to someone when they are on their deathbed. Registered Los Angeles nurse and author Julie McFadden specialises in hospice care, and has dealt with hundreds of people who are in the process of dying. The 41-year-old has taken to social media, building a following of millions, to share insights into the process of “death and dying” and help destigmatise the things people at the end of their life experience.
McFadden explained that there are six phenomena surrounding death that she was initially uncomfortable sharing until she witnessed them for herself. She hopes her insight will help comfort both those going through their last days of life and family members who have to witness their loved ones dying. McFadden explained that patients often experienced “terminal lucidity”, “hallucinations” and “death stares” among other things.
“There are many death-bed phenomena and I’ve seen them all, let’s break them down. I want to be clear this doesn’t happen to everyone but it does happen enough that I like to educate about it,” she begins in her YouTube clip. “Coming on to hospice and becoming a hospice nurse, I was educated about it and was told to educate families about it.
And surely as the years went on and I started seeing things more and more, it became apparent that I definitely needed to educate people about it because it happens so often.” Terminal lucidity.
