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The dying process: medical science embraces that the last of our earthly human senses to go at the time of death is our hearing. Even a patient who is in a coma and non-responsive can hear what people are saying around them. Our sense of touch says with us, as well as other senses, until death arrives. But hearing is the last to go.
Inner silence, which for most people was in the background their whole life, comes to the foreground and overwhelms the dying person. Hearing, or sound, is replaced by internal silence. Lots of people struggle with the silence as it overtakes them, but many welcome the silence. Some say they can not hear themselves think as they take their final breath.
It is the silence which comes in an overwhelming powerful wave which takes us from our physical body. Another word for silence is peace, and from all accounts it is a very peaceful and air like experience. Some people report seeing an inky like blackness as they leave their physical body while others mention a brilliant light.
Human beings who hear these reports from the dying draw their own conclusions. I remain silence on any interpretations regarding this. Although as I said earlier, in my opinion, death is painless and any pain which may be experienced comes from the dying human body. In hospice care pain management is one of the central things which are done for the dying.
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