Dementia is often described as "the long goodbye." Although the person is still alive, dementia slowly and irreversibly chips away at their memories and the qualities that make someone "them." ...

In Alexander Batthyany’s new book, Threshold: Terminal Lucidity and the Border of Life and Death, he asks the question, “Why is it at the decisive crossroads of death and dying, when the biological ...

Research assessed caregivers’ perceptions when witnessing episodes of terminal lucidity in children. The findings indicate that witnessing these episodes was regarded as a profoundly spiritual ...

The political scientist Charles Murray, best known for The Bell Curve and other fiercely debated works on human intelligence, has taken up a more metaphysical interest: the existence of the soul. In a ...

For nearly five years, an elderly woman with advanced Alzheimer's disease hadn't spoken. Then, one afternoon, while lying in bed surrounded by her two daughters and granddaughter, she suddenly became ...

The case study of Anna Katherina Ehmer is one of the most famous studies of terminal lucidity, a phenomenon that continues to baffle researchers. Ms. Ehmer, known as Käthe, was a German woman born ...

Dementia is often described as “the long goodbye”. Although the person is still alive, dementia slowly and irreversibly chips away at their memories and the qualities that make someone “them”.