End-of-Life Tip #1: The Death Rattle

Seven (7) Days of end-of-life tips

Gabrielle Elise Jimenez (“Gabby") is a hospice nurse, an end-of-life doula, a death and dying educator, an author, and a blogger, and she has a social media platform of over 140,000. Her Facebook page is The Hospice Heart. She is the author of The Conversation: A Guide to Talking About Death and Dying with the People You Love, which I encourage you to read.

Gabby has generously and graciously permitted me to re-publish her ‘7 Days of End-of-Life Care Tips’ here in the Graceful Transitions An End-of-Life Doula publication. CHEERS

We’ll publish these tips for seven days and archive them as a resource for your future needs. This series is exclusive to alums of the Guide to Living Fully & Dying Prepared workshop series and lifetime paid subscribers.

End-of-Life Tip #1 The Death Rattle

(Note that this doesn’t always happen)

I want to (in my terms) explain the "death rattle", which by the way I think is an awful term, and I wish they would call it something else. Note: some call it "terminal secretions," which I don't think is any better... but it is what it is.