Last word that signals end of life?

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So this research, I just want to give a bit
of a trigger warning because it is about the last
word you may say before you die.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Right.

Speaker 1 (00:11):
So, an eighteen year veteran of an ICU Ward Goodness,
has written a book, and this book is eye opening,
and in this particular book it talks about over his
eighteen year career in intensive care, there has never been
a single exception of the last word that you may

(00:34):
say that signals to doctors and caregivers that you only
have hours left to live.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
Okay, right, so you're so basically nothing that you say
is referencing that you've got no time. You haven't got time.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
Ye, So you're in ic you you might be thinking
there's some hope, and then if you utter this word,
or your loved one utters this word, doctors and nurses
know that you've only got hours left. So it started
tell me because then I know it's still interesting. Wouldn't
share it if it wasn't.

Speaker 2 (01:03):
Just as lightly to go, oh yeah, okay.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
So start In twenty eleven and a stroke patient had
been in a coma, vitals were stable and the family
were hopeful. They whispered a word at two thirty seven pm.
By seven fifty two pm, his heart simply stopped. So
then this doctor went back through years of ICU records
and he found forty three documented cases and every single

(01:28):
patient said the same word. Now this is before I
get into what that word is. I want to explain
what happens. So before you die, your brain starts to
shut down. But before it does, it does these steps
according to this book and according to this research, So
about sixty to ninety minutes before shut down, the hippocampus

(01:50):
hyperactively scans every store memory for the strongest emotional anchor.
So the hippocampus is a little part in the back
of your brain that stores all your memories. So it
gives like a permission signal. So it finds home base
in the memories and pretty much lets the body know
it's safe to let go. So a neurotransmitter cascade triggers,

(02:12):
your blood pressure drops, your heart rate starts to fall,
then your breaths get shallow and then pause, and the
body starts to break down. Okay, this is according to
this research. I'm not a doctor. So a twenty eight
year old car accident victim, another story for you, Day
five in a coma brain swelling decreasing her husband was
reading it her bedside. She says the word doctor. He

(02:34):
jumps up says to the doctor, she said something, She
said something, said this particular word. They heard the word.
Then the blood pressure started dropping and the doctor knew
that they couldn't say to the patient, Okay, this is
not good. They've said that word. And then a few
hours later she passed away. They kept going through this,
so they've been researching this particular word. Right now, what

(02:57):
do you think it is?

Speaker 2 (02:59):
We'll see if I would have thought words like could
you plug me back in? But I would say the
word peace, home, home, sleep, no and wake up, and
you'll be a chicken. Yeah, no, no, No.

Speaker 1 (03:16):
It's mum. Isn't that wild?

Speaker 2 (03:20):
So is it the person that's dying that says mum, yes,
not the person there with them?

Speaker 1 (03:26):
No, No, it's what they will say. So in this
particular book, there are thousands of documented cases witnessed by
ICU nurses and doctors around the world saying that the
last words they said were mum, not wife, not kids,
no exception, it's mum. And this is the theory. In

(03:46):
the womb, it's your mom, your mother's voice through the
fluid the brain starts associating that with safety, warmth, and survival.
Then that imprint on you becomes the most powerful pathway
in your brain, active till the very last electrical impulse fires.
Whether it's a good mother, a terrible mother, mother who's around,
mother who's been passed away for years and years and years,

(04:08):
the brain in order to pass returns to the concept
of unconditional safety, and that is your mum. And there's
case after case in this particular book that has been released.
It's called The Body's Red Flags twenty one signals your
body sends before illness and death. And I just I

(04:30):
read this beautiful comments. I went to the comments and
I read this beautiful comments and one of them was
and it's what I thought, isn't it interesting how it
can be your first word too?

Speaker 2 (04:41):
Well? I was going to say that that's a lot
of dads would be saying, So my kids said, dad first,
that's okay, you can have mum.

Speaker 1 (04:50):
Yeah. I just thought that was something nice to hear
that all the mothers

Speaker 2 (04:55):
In the it's all for mum.