Terminal lucidity

Terminal lucidity, rally before death or end-of-life rally, refers to an unexpected return of mental clarity and memory, or suddenly regained consciousness that occurs in the time shortly before death in patients suffering from severe psychiatric or neurological disorders.[1][2] This phenomenon has been noted in patients with schizophrenia, tumors, strokes, meningitis, Parkinson's disease, and Alzheimer's disease.[3]

It may be present even in cases of patients with previous mental disability.[4] There are two subtypes: one that comes gradually (a week before death), and another that comes rapidly (hours before death). The former occurs in the majority of cases. There may be plenty of cases reported in literature, although the phrase terminal lucidity was coined in 2009.[5]

Others may experience deathbed visions: having visions of deceased relatives, friends or religious figures, and often communicating with them.[6]

They have diagnosed that anyone with schizophrenia, tumors, strokes, meningitis, Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease are susceptible to having Terminal Lucidity. The disease is described as the unexpected return of reality. Patients gain consciousness and mental clarity and sometimes memories come back to them a short time before death. This is found most commonly in those with psychiatric disorders that interfere with their brain activity. Although there are instances in the past of this disease found in patients it was not officially a titled disease until 2009. This disease seems to take place at or shortly after the body ceases to have their vital body functions work which is referred to as an end-of-life experience or (ELEs). Scientists are still not entirely sure how it happens or why it happens in some individuals and not others. One study notes that Hippocrates, Plutarch, Cicero, Galen, Avicenna all noted that "symptoms of mental disorders decrease as death approaches." They understood this phenomenon in spiritual terms: “the soul remains basically intact when the brain is affected by physical malfunction and disturbance of the mind." [7][8]

References
  1. Mendoza Ph.D., Marilyn A. "Why Some People Rally for One Last Goodbye Before Death". Psychology Today. Retrieved 26 August 2019.
  2. Bursack, Carol Bradley. "When Loved Ones Rally Before Death". AgingCare. Retrieved 26 August 2019.
  3. Nahm, Michael; Greyson, Bruce; Kelly, Emily Williams; Haraldsson, Erlendur (2012). "Terminal lucidity: A review and a case collection". Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics. 55 (1): 138–42. doi:10.1016/j.archger.2011.06.031. PMID 21764150.
  4. Nahm, M.; Greyson, B. (2014). "The Death of Anna Katharina Ehmer: A Case Study in Terminal Lucidity". OMEGA. 68 (1): 77–87. doi:10.2190/OM.68.1.e. PMID 24547666.
  5. Bering, Jesse (2017). "One Last Goodbye: The Strange Case of Terminal Lucidity". Scientific American Blog Network.
  6. Nahm, Michael. "Terminal Lucidity in People with Mental Illness and Other Mental Disability: An Overview and Implications for Possible Explanatory Models" (PDF). Spiritual Scientific. Michael Nahm. Retrieved 3 December 2019.
  7. Nahm, Michael. "Terminal Lucidity in People with Mental Illness and Other Mental Disability: An Overview and Implications for Possible Explanatory Models" (PDF). Spiritual Scientific. Michael Nahm. Retrieved 3 December 2019.
  8. Batthyany, Alexander. "Complex Visual Imagery and Cognition During Near-Death Experiences". Phil Archive. University of Vienna & International. Retrieved 3 December 2019.


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