Hospice experts describe a distinctive sound, known as the death rattle, that often signals a person is within a day of dying. Caused by saliva and secretions collecting in the throat when swallowing ...

Lying on his stomach in a pool of blood, Ahmaud Arbery began emitting "death rattle" sounds, a police officer recalled on the stand Monday at the Georgia trial of three white men charged with his ...

In the final episode of the FX series Dying for Sex, a hospice nurse with an oddly comforting sense of enthusiasm explains to a patient what to expect as she dies. “Death is not a mystery. It is not a ...

Prophylactic anticholinergic dosing once death was imminent in hospice patients reduced death rattle, the SILENCE trial showed. Subcutaneous scopolamine butylbromide (which is not FDA approved) cut ...

A hospice nurse has revealed the two most 'disturbing' changes that happen to a dying patient which families say they wished ...

Nursing requires hands-on training. But research has found that university curriculum often goes light on one of life's universal experiences — dying. So some colleges have gone to new lengths to make ...