{"id":140922,"date":"2024-03-12T17:00:09","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T00:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=140922"},"modified":"2024-03-12T17:00:09","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T00:00:09","slug":"doctor-shares-what-happens-to-our-bodies-moments-before-we-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2024\/03\/12\/doctor-shares-what-happens-to-our-bodies-moments-before-we-die\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctor shares what happens to our bodies moments before we die"},"content":{"rendered":"

Story by Sian Elvin Courtesy msn.com<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n
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Dr Kathryn Mannix, who worked in palliative care for 30 years, broke down our final moments (Picture: Getty Images)\u00a9 Provided by Metro<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A retired doctor has revealed the process of exactly what happens to our bodies before we die.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr Kathryn Mannix, who worked in palliative care for 30 years, broke down our final moments on BBC Women\u2019s Hour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She discussed her new short animation Dying for Beginners, which aims to tackle the fear people have surrounding the end of their lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She said: \u2018It\u2019s not a frightening mental state to be in, it\u2019s a state of not knowing anything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018The first thing that\u2019s noticeable is just that the body starts to run out of energy, almost like when you\u2019ve got an old mobile phone and the battery won\u2019t stay charged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018And the charger is sleep. More than food, more than drink. And in fact a lot of dying people don\u2019t feel very hungry and that\u2019s fine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018They\u2019re not dying because they\u2019re not eating. They\u2019re not eating because their body is dying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018So as time goes by people gradually need more sleep to give them intervals of enough energy to think and do what they can.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018And gradually people become not just asleep, but unconscious. Now they don\u2019t recognise the difference.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She also spoke about the so-called \u2018death rattle\u2019 which can sound distressing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She said: \u2018The brain runs reflex breathing patterns that move backwards and forwards between quite deep breathing that gradually becomes more shallow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018And then back to the beginning again, and backwards and forwards between periods of quite slow breathing, more rapid breathing, back to slow breathing again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Now if you haven\u2019t seen that before, you might think that the person who is breathing, perhaps fast but shallow, is struggling to breathe or is panting or is uncomfortable.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She said this was a sign of \u2018deep unconsciousness\u2019 and your life does not flash before your eyes, as often depicted in films.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She added: \u2018This person is quite safe. And then at the very end of somebody\u2019s life there will usually be one of those slow breathing phases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018There will be a breath out that just doesn\u2019t have another breath in after it, which is not at all what Hollywood has lead us all to expect.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr Kathryn said this facts may not make a person\u2019s death less sad, but hopes it may make it seem less scary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018To take away the fear, I think is the mission I\u2019m on,\u2019 she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr Kathryn qualified as a cognitive behaviour therapist in 1993, and then launched the UK\u2019s first CBT clinic exclusively for palliative care patients.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Story by Sian Elvin Courtesy msn.com Dr Kathryn Mannix, who worked in palliative care for 30 years, broke down our final moments (Picture: Getty Images)\u00a9 Provided by Metro A retired doctor has revealed the process of exactly what happens to our bodies before we die. Dr Kathryn Mannix, who worked in palliative care for 30 years, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buddhism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}