The TRUTH about the ‘death stare’: Hospice nurse lifts the lid on phenomenon that signals a person is going to pass away

A hospice nurse has shared an intriguing insight into the ‘death stare’, revealing the truth about the common phenomenon that signals when someone is about to die.

Julie McFadden, 41, is a registered nurse based in Los Angeles who specializes in hospice care – and has built millions of followers on social media in sharing insights to help destigmatize the process of ‘death and dying’ her website explains.

She recently took to YouTube to share details about something that happens to dying people as they die, revealing how their eyes can become “fixated” on one point.

“If you’re not familiar with end-of-life phenomena, there are a number of things that happen at the end of life for most people,” she explained.

“One of those things is called a death stare, which is when someone gets really fixated on a certain part of the room, and no matter what you do — you can snap your finger right in front of their face — and they won’t move their gaze.” ‘

‘Sometimes they just stare. Sometimes they talk to someone you don’t see. Sometimes they have a big smile on their face, as if they see something that clearly makes them very happy. So that’s called the ‘death stare’.”

The “death gaze” is often accompanied by what Julie called “end-of-life vision,” in which the dying person claims to see someone he “usually loves and knows” and who “has already died.”

“They will sometimes have conversations right in front of us with these people that we don’t see,” she added of the eerie event.

She then shared a chilling story in which an older man was already exhibiting both the “death stare” and “end-of-life visioning” when she came to see him for a “follow-up visit.”

The man’s caregiver was his wife; both were married for years in the mid to late 1990s and 1970s.

‘I immediately fell in love with these two. They were so, so, so sweet,” Julie said.

“He was what I call ‘pleasantly confused,'” Julie continued, explaining that he knew who his wife was and was polite to everyone, but couldn’t really hold a conversation or seem to know what was going on in general. hand wash.

“I noticed him looking at me and smiling, then suddenly turning his head and fixating on another part of the room, and then smiling a huge smile, as if he saw something there,” Julie further recalled.

“And he kept doing it the whole visit…I couldn’t get his attention when he did that. And then suddenly a big smile came on his face.’

Julie decided to call the woman: “I wanted his wife to see this because these end-of-life phenomena can often give you a timeline of when this person may die.”

It usually starts a few weeks to a month before their final moments, Julie added, emphasizing that she wants “family members to see it too and know what’s going on.”

The woman then told Julie that the man had been doing the death stare several times a day for a week.

With that, the wife had gotten an answer from her husband about what he was looking at – which, Julie said, “doesn’t always happen.”

“He said ‘Jesus,’” the woman told Julie.

Julie further emphasized that “the point of the story is not that he saw Jesus.

‘Because a lot of people say they see a lot of different things. And it usually depends on what religion they are.

‘Sometimes they see no deity at all. They say, you know, “I see beautiful clouds” or “I see flowers.” Some people see Jesus or God or angels.

“But the great thing is that whatever he saw, he was very happy and smiling,” Julie emphasized.

But from then on things got weirder.

The woman took Julie into the living room and showed her her family albums.

She also mentioned that her sister had just died.

Considering that the woman, her sister and the man were all close, she didn’t have the heart to tell her husband about her sister’s death because she thought it would just make him “super sad” and that he would probably soon forget it. Good.

But after about a week, the woman, out of guilt, decided to tell her husband that her sister, his sister-in-law, had died.

He then calmly told his wife that he already knew that because the sister had told him.

“She came to me last week and said she had died,” the man told his wife about her sister, according to Julie.

With that, he said it was “smiling, like he approved of it,” she continued about the woman’s story.

“It’s going to give you chills when I tell you this story,” the nurse further admitted.

This isn’t the first time Julie has spoken out about the end-of-life tendencies she’s witnessed.

Last year she delved into ‘visions about the end of life’ and how eerily ‘logical’ the exchanges surrounding them can be.

‘They are usually functional and logical and ask me: ‘Why am I seeing my deceased mother, are you seeing her?’ she said.

Julie is also planning to come later this year publishing a book entitled Nothing to FearBilled as a “comforting and informative guide that demystifies our end-of-life journey.”