Mark HoganThis is a fascinating article. In early 2020 my dad was dying in the hospital and the first night I visited with him, while he was still pretty lucid, he asked me if I could turn the kitchen light off before I went upstairs to bed. He knew who I was and that I was visiting but we were back in the house I grew up in that he had moved out of years earlier.
During that same month when he was going in for surgery I talked him extremely early in the morning and he mentioned first light and I got the sense he was (in his head) back at the Boy Scout camp he ran in the 1970s. He wasn’t agitated at all. Connecting all the dots of life.
Bob Horowitz@Markasaurus This past October, a month before my mother died, she started imagining people who had died many years ago. I remember one phone call in particular... when I asked why she was whispering. She said my father was asleep in the bedroom and she didn't want to wake him. Dad died in 2001.
Mom, 97, managed to reach 97 and a half without dementia. But in the last 5-6 weeks of her life, she was suddenly seeing people and thinking past events had just happened.
My sister, a PA specializing in elder care, said this was a common sign that death was approaching.