Research from the University of British Columbia suggests people who are unresponsive can hear, even hours before they die.
A police officer Const. Ian Jordan in Victoria has died after spending 30 years in an unresponsive state following an on-duty car crash. VANCOUVER -- For 30 years, Hilary Jordan talked to her husband about the goings on in their family and the world but she wasn't sure if the police officer injured in a crash could hear anything as he lay unconscious in a hospital bed.
The study, published recently in Scientific Reports, was the first to investigate hearing when people are close to death, in one case six hours beforehand, Blundon said. Participants wore a cap with 64 electrodes that measured brain waves as they listened to a series of tones grouped in five patterns that would occasionally change.
"It's an encouraging sign that at the very least the brain is reacting and processing at some capacity the auditory information that it's receiving," she said of the glimpse into brain activity that persists in the transition between life and death. Dr. Romayne Gallagher, who recently retired as a palliative care physician at St. John Hospice where part of the study was completed, said she noticed during 30 years in her job that patients would react positively when they heard the voice of a loved one, even on the phone.
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