It's not something any of us want to talk about but it's going to happen to every one of us and that is dying. However, when visiting someone at home or at a hospital and in a comatose state DO NOT speak around them of things that you don't want the patient to hear because, whether or not the person is dying, the hearing is the last to go. For some reason, the nurses and hospital staff aren't allowed to tell you this. I know this from when my mother used to work in the hospital in her old town as an EKG tech but she wasn't allowed to tell the patients families. She heard so many talk about funeral arrangements and what was going to happen to the patients things. It was so awful that she had to bite her tongue and not say anything. Now that's not to say that the patient will hear you but that they just might and you don't want to take that chance. So please, make funeral arrangements, arguments, final plans on the patients things and other sensitive things like that out of ear shot of the patient. But do talk about everything good going on in your life in hopes to make their last moments happy ones.... if they're dying or wake them up if they're not.
Did you know about this? The human body is an amazing thing! It makes me wonder what else it can do!