It is believed that being on the verge of death, people think in black tones and generally experience hopeless horror. Scientists, however, have found that, realizing the approaching end with no alternative, many people stop feeling fear.
“The question of what a dying person feels has worried people since ancient times. Which is not surprising, after all, death is an extremely mysterious process that people, due to the peculiarities of human thinking, simply cannot fully comprehend. But now we have science, so we can finally get to the bottom of death,”says one of the study's authors at the University of North Carolina, Curt Gray.
A team of scientists led by Gray conducted a complex experiment in which terminally ill people participated. That is, patients who had very little time to live. Trying to somehow occupy themselves in the face of the approaching end, the patients wrote blogs in which they described their emotions and feelings.
Similar blogs were run by people asked by scientists to imagine themselves terminally ill. Then the records were compared. As a result, it turned out that truly terminally ill patients show positive moods more often than expected.
Kolesnikov Andrey