The last breaths
Audio
2019
While each person is unique, the dying process is nearly universal. Knowing common symptoms is often helpful when accompanying those who are dying or even when going through one's own process of dying.
Long pauses in breathing, the sounds of inhaling and exhaling—changing breathing patterns are often a clear sign of approaching death. The dying one remains calm. Unlike shortness of breath, changes in the breathing sounds are hardly registered by the dying, although they may be frightening to bystanders and seem agonizing.
Breath is life. We can live up to a month without food, around ten days without sleep, a week without water, but only three to four minutes without breathing. The cycle of our breathing can be seen in many other movements in nature as well.
︎ What Would the last waves of the sea sound like?
Long pauses in breathing, the sounds of inhaling and exhaling—changing breathing patterns are often a clear sign of approaching death. The dying one remains calm. Unlike shortness of breath, changes in the breathing sounds are hardly registered by the dying, although they may be frightening to bystanders and seem agonizing.
Breath is life. We can live up to a month without food, around ten days without sleep, a week without water, but only three to four minutes without breathing. The cycle of our breathing can be seen in many other movements in nature as well.
︎ What Would the last waves of the sea sound like?