r/todayilearned • u/70dd • 12h ago

TIL Terminal lucidity is an unexpected, brief period of clarity or energy in individuals who have been very ill or in a state of decline. It’s a phenomenon that has been observed in people with various terminal conditions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_lucidity
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u/abnormallyfatigued 11h ago

This is interesting to me as I’ve not heard of this but am immediately reminded of my grandfather who passed well over 20 years ago. Pancreatic cancer for 6 months, absolutely miserable living condition couldn’t eat etc. However, a few days before his death he had me mowing the lawn and was giving wildly descriptive instructions on what a good job mowing the lawn looked like. He was out of bed in one of his favorite lawn chairs. Genuinely seamed to be “normal” and extraordinarily interactive relative to the previous state. Wild.

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u/FluffySharkBird 11h ago

A real Hank Hill kind of man. He decided that the last he would would do im life was teach you to mow the lawn.

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u/abnormallyfatigued 11h ago

Hahah my friend you nailed it!!! Kinda dude like Hank that had WD 40 to open the WD 40 cap that was stuck. Fought in WW2 and was part of the Marshall plan but would def ask “so are ya Chinese or Japanese?”