The eerie phrase "the smell of death" is usually used in an allegorical sense. However, there are people who literally sense a special smell from a person who is about to die … At the same time, the gift of foresight is no longer manifested in them. A lot of stories on this topic can be found on online blogs and forums.
“From time to time, strange and creepy things happen to me,” says one Muscovite. - The fact is that when one of my acquaintances dies, I literally feel … a cadaverous smell!
For example, I walk into the entrance of a house and smell decomposition. And then it turns out that someone was recently buried in that entrance. It also happens before someone dies. Somehow I felt this horrible smell, and 2 days later a 16-year-old girl threw herself out of the window in a neighboring house.
Recently while visiting, I again felt this "aroma". It came from one of my friends. Then I heard him again when I said goodbye to my second friend. It scared me, but somehow I knew that nothing would happen to my friends - two men would die. If a man is destined to die, the smell is usually stronger, if a woman it is weaker.
It happened on Saturday night. And on Monday morning I went to a driving course at a driving school, and they told me that one guy from our group had died. He had not shown up for class for several days before. We were never told the cause of death. That same evening, a friend of my husband called us and told us that a close relative of his had died of cancer at the age of 80”.
Another blogger said that from the age of five she has a strange smell of "sweet freshness" from time to time. For the first time, the girl felt him at the funeral of her grandmother's friend, and then he always foreshadowed something bad.
Once the girl "heard" this smell in her entrance. As she climbed to her floor, the "aroma" intensified … The girl's grandfather was lying on the floor in the apartment. He was dead …
Several years passed, and somehow, upon entering the entrance, our heroine again felt the "deadly" smell. This time it turned out that the father of a neighbor on the first floor had died.
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Once this woman was celebrating the New Year in a large company. Approaching one of my acquaintances, I felt that a familiar light sweetish aroma emanated from her … The next day this lady, a poet prone to depression, threw herself from the eighth floor …
Another woman told about her husband, who for several days smelled the scent of chrysanthemums near the hostel, past whom he went to work. A week later, half of the dormitory building collapsed, people died …
A male blogger told about his friend who, being next to someone who is about to die, smells blood …
Here's another story: “My grandfather was a heavy smoker, he smoked cheap cigarettes, so he smelled very strongly of tobacco…. Before his death, the smell of some kind of sweetness began to hover in the house, and when he was buried, after a while this smell appeared again! The most interesting thing was that it smelled only in one room, then the smell disappeared, some time passed, for example a week, it smelled again, only in another room. And my mother said that at night the house smells awful of tobacco. This continued until a year after the death of his grandfather."
Unfortunately, the blogger does not specify whether all family members could smell the scent, or only some of them, and whether outsiders smelled it …
Hungarian journalist Nandor Fodor tried to understand the reasons for this phenomenon. He suggested that signs of decomposition in the body of dying people appear long before their death, and people with a sensitive sense of smell are able to perceive this smell … Often animals also anticipate someone's near death: let's remember how a dog can howl "over a dead man" …
But how to explain the cases when the smell is felt at a distance or when death does not occur from illness? “Several years ago, my 12-year-old daughter ran out of the living room, screaming that she could smell death in her,” writes Fodor. “The next morning a letter came in which it was reported about the death of my cousin - he died at the very time when the girl had a premonition …”
A study by experts from the University of Chicago has shown that people often have a premonition of their own death on a subconscious level. And the mental sphere is closely related to physiology. Our subconscious mind influences physical matter, it begins to “decompose”, and especially sensitive people perceive the “scent of decomposition” …
Dr. Morton E. Lieberman of Preitzker Medical says: "It is possible that with appropriate training, we can learn to recognize in years or months when we naturally die." It's another matter - do we always need to know exactly when we will die?
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