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Terminal lucidity: when dying people wake up

MANY years ago, I looked after a man who was dying at home from a lower body malignancy. He had had significant pain but, choosing not to travel over 1000 km to Brisbane for palliative radiotherapy, accepted an epidural and was being cared for at home by the local domiciliary nursing service and with me as his GP and neophyte palliative care doctor.

Terminal lucidity when dying people wake up 306