Terminal Lucidity

Terminal lucidity is the documented phenomenon of clarity returning shortly before death — dementia patients who have not spoken in years suddenly present, naming relatives, saying goodbyes. Medicine records it and cannot yet explain it; hospice staff treat it as a familiar signpost. Families file it here alongside its stranger companions: the dying addressing visitors no one else sees, often deceased relatives, with the unhurried tone of someone greeting people at a door. The accounts are tender, precise, and very hard to vote against.

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