Death & 5 Senses/Question

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In what order are the senses loss or shutdown during the death process of terminally ill patients? Or of patients dying slowly etc...

Example: sight, smell, taste, touch, hearing/ I'm reading about this and have been taught that the hearing is last. But in what order do the other four senses fall.

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Specializes in Oncology, Palliative care.

You are correct about hearing, I guess the other senses depend on the individual, such as touch depending on rate of peripheral shutdown.

These info pages may help:

http://www.cancerpage.com/centers/Transitions/near.asp

http://www.carersnsw.asn.au/storage/pdfs/process_dying.pdf

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