Hospice experts describe a distinctive sound, known as the death rattle, that often signals a person is within a day of dying. Caused by saliva and secretions collecting in the throat when swallowing ...

Julie discussed symptoms someone in the actively dying phase might experience that may look scary, but are completely normal — like the death rattle, the "rally," and "fish-out-of-water" breathing.

Death is something everyone experiences but few people want to talk about. One nurse is trying to break that stigma, taking to TikTok to talk frankly about death, from what a person feels while dying ...

A hospice nurse has lifted the lid on the signs she sees most often in the final 24 hours of a patient’s life, and says they’re not as terrifying as people might think. Julie McFadden, a ...

A hospice nurse has revealed the things every person does before they die. Chinnapong - stock.adobe.com At death’s doorstep, nearly everyone does the same thing, a hospice nurse has revealed. Maria ...

Just because death is inevitable doesn’t make it easy or natural to talk about. In a new study, researchers wondered if hospice workers—experts in end-of-life care—had lessons to teach the rest of us ...

“You think it will never happen to you, that it cannot happen to you, that you are the only person in the world to whom none of these things will ever happen,” author Paul Auster wrote about humans’ ...