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Can a dying person cry?

It's uncommon, but it can be difficult to watch when it happens. Instead of peacefully floating off, the dying person may cry out and try to get out of bed. Their muscles might twitch or spasm.

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Despite the sound’s alarming roughness, it’s unlikely that the death rattle is painful. The presence of a death rattle doesn’t correlate with signs of respiratory distress. As often happens in medicine, we treat based on intuition. To lessen the volume of the death rattle, we give medications that decrease saliva production. Sometimes, we are successful in silencing the rattle. More of the time, we placate our instinctive concern for a noise that probably sounds worse than it feels. Without hurting our patients, we treat the witnesses who will go on living.

Air Hunger

“You villain touch! What are you doing? My breath is tight in its throat” (Walt Whitman) The patient was a wiry woman in her 80s who had smoked for seven decades. Cigarettes turned her lungs from a spongelike texture to billowing plastic bags that collapsed on themselves when she exhaled. It was like trying to scrunch all the air out of a shopping bag. Air got trapped. Air hunger — the uncomfortable feeling of breathing difficulty — is one of the most common end-of-life symptoms that doctors work to ease.

The treatment? Opiates, usually morphine.

People sometimes ask why the treatment for painful breathing is a medication that can depress breathing. You’d guess that opiates would worsen air hunger. The answer hinges on defining why air hunger is uncomfortable in the first place. Some researchers think the discomfort of air hunger is from the mismatch between the breathing our brain wants and our lungs’ ability to inflate and deflate. Opiates provide relief because they tune our brain’s appetite for air to what our body can provide. They take the “hunger” out of “air hunger.” Others believe that the amount of morphine needed to relieve air hunger may have little effect on our ability to breathe. Since air hunger and pain activate similar parts of the brain, opiates may simply work by muting the brain’s pain signals.

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What happens no money for funeral?

What happens if you can't afford a funeral? The local council or hospital can arrange a Public Health Funeral if: there isn't enough money in the estate to pay for it. there are no relatives or friends available to arrange the funeral.

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In England, the Children’s Funeral Fund can contribute up to £300 (Opens in a new window) towards any reasonable funeral costs such as the burial fees, cremation fees and a coffin, shroud or casket. In Wales, there’s a £500 contribution towards the funeral (Opens in a new window) and other related costs such as floral tributes, plaques. If you live in England or Wales and you are getting certain benefits, you can also apply for up to £1,000 Funeral Expenses Payment (Opens in a new window) to help cover some of the other reasonable costs. In Scotland, the average payment is £1,700 for contribution (Opens in a new window) towards any reasonable funeral costs you need to pay for such as the funeral service or funeral car. In Northern Ireland, you can get up to £1,000 for reasonable funeral expenses (Opens in a new window) for fees or items such as funeral director’s fees, flowers, coffin. For practical and emotional support during this time, the stillbirth and neonatal death charity Sands might be able to help.

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