End-of-Life Dreams and Visions
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End-of-life dreams and visions: a longitudinal study of hospice patients' experiences.
Choosing Death: Aid in Dying Gains Support
Among the study’s other findings, according to the researchers:
- 88 percent of the patients had at least one dream or vision, they reported
- 99 percent believed that their visions or dreams were real
- Traveling, or preparing to go, somewhere was a common theme
- 60 percent of the dreams or visions were comforting; 19 were distressing and 21 percent were neither
- The most common dreams and visions were of living or dead loved ones
- As death neared, comforting dreams of deceased loved ones (including pets) became more common
- There were distinct differences between the dreams/visions and delirium
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