How Does A Person Feel 5 Minutes And 3 Minutes Before Death?

Would you like to know what is happening to your body in the last few minutes of your life? We think it’s very important for one to be aware of and understand the process of death. So in this post, we’re going to describe what happens in those last 5 minutes before dying at a physiological level.  Before 5 minutes and 3 minutes of death, your body temperature decreases. Your vision and hearing are fading. You have cold limbs & numbness and can barely walk or move.

You may notice urine with the yellow colour changing to dark brown or red. The patient’s urine may also have blood. The urine may have a sweet smell. A strong ammonia odour is also common in the final stage of death. On the other hand, people who die in accidents do not have these symptoms. They may see some spiritual things some days before death.

What does a person feel 5 minutes before death?

If your heart stops beating, your arms, legs, and stomach will feel cold as circulation slows down. The extremities will go numb, and you may experience dizziness and loss of hearing and vision in the minutes following cardiac arrest or other forms of oxygen deprivation. You don’t want to be anywhere near this happening unless you have CPR training and all the right equipment.

Five minutes before death

• You feel pain.
• You feel very uncomfortable.
• You might feel hot or cold.
• You may feel sleepy, hungry, thirsty and tired.
• You may cry and be happy at the same time. It’s a confusing feeling that only people who will die can understand. Seven seconds before death:
• You’re crying because you don’t want to die but know that you must die, and so your soul cries in agony.

Vision and hearing will decrease.

A lack of oxygen will significantly impact your vision. You may notice increased sensitivity to light or your vision may blur and fade into darkness. Even if you’re not experiencing these effects, your senses are likely to be impacted by the physiological changes that occur in the body when  death comes 

Before death you will feel slower breathing (possibly accompanied by irregular breaths), an increased heart rate, lower blood pressure and increased blood flow to the brain. These symptoms can affect your cognitive abilities and make you feel disoriented and confused.

Cold limbs & numbness.

The only way to get a definite answer to this is to look at the medical literature. It is not a very pleasant subject per se, but it’s important for the people you may care about if they consider dying in that way.

What does a person feel 3 minutes before death?

Gradually, the oxygen level in the blood drops, and this causes the heart to beat more slowly and weakly. The body’s chemical composition also changes, and as a result, the person’s brain may not get enough oxygen. As the heart and breathing rate decreases, the person may become unresponsive. They will most likely be unconscious when you check on them two minutes before death. Their breathing is shallow or stopped completely at this point.

The blood pressure is low, and there is very little muscle activity now. A person one minute away from death experiences:

• They’ll have a low heart rate and pulse that has disappeared altogether.
• The body will have become cold to the touch.
• Pupils of their eyes are dilated.

Muscles relax.

The muscle tone disappears completely during this time as well. The muscle relaxes until it gets stiffer due to dehydration or rigour Mortis. In cases where sudden death occurs within three minutes of an accident or trauma, some of these symptoms do not appear.

Instead, there may be signs of severe bleeding or other injuries such as broken bones that lead to their demise. At this point, the body is well on its way toward death. Your muscles will become very relaxed, and you won’t be able to control them as you once did.

Breathing Decreases.

At this point, your breathing has become irregular and shallow. You may also be experiencing pauses in which you stop breathing for a few seconds before resuming. These periods of no breath are known as agonal respirations.

You might be able to get out a few words. Still, they will likely be unintelligible or incomprehensible due to slowed brain activity. In these final minutes, you’ll experience one last breath, the death rattle which sounds like a gargle or gurgle and can last anywhere from one to 30 minutes.

The heart rate is low, and the pulse disappears.

The heart rate is low, and the pulse disappears. The blood pressure is low, and the pulse becomes faint and irregular. The skin becomes pale, cold and clammy; the breathing shallow; pupils dilated, eyelids drooping, and the eyeballs protruding.

What happened few minutes before death

When a person is dying, their vital organs gradually deteriorate and shut down. When someone close to us dies, it can be difficult to know when to say goodbye. While there is no definitive answer for this, as every death is different, several signs indicate an end is near. These include:

• A drop in body temperature (hypothermia)
• No longer responding or able to communicate.
• Not eating or drinking anything, including water
• Unable to swallow medications or food
• Chest pain while breathing normally (pneumonia).

When someone is dying what do they feel

In general terms, though, the final three minutes of life happen very quickly and usually consist of the following changes occurring in sequence:

• The heartbeat slows down and becomes irregular.
• Respiration slows down and ceases completely (apnea).
• Lowered blood pressure results in poor circulation, which causes the skin on your hands and feet firstly – then over your entire body – to turn blue due to lack of oxygenated blood flow (cyanosis). It will also cause the extremities, such as your hands, feet, fingers, toes etc., to become cold from lack of blood flow.
• Your lips turn a bluish tinge, as do your fingertips and toes, indicating that you are now clinically dead! But before any doctor declares you legally dead, they may check for two other signs of clinical death:
• If you shine a light into your eyes, a dying person’s pupils become dilated (large). However, their pupils remain constricted if they are still alive (small).
• Suppose you touch the surface of someone’s eye whilst they are dying. In that case, this should not cause their eyelids to flicker or blink as they would if they were still alive; again, their nervous system has ceased functioning correctly due to shutting.

Final Words

Above, we have guided you on what you can feel before 3 and 5 minutes of death, according to researchers. Sometimes when someone dies unexpectedly, such as in an accident or fire, they may have been unconscious due to injury and therefore do not experience any pain or fear during their last moments alive. 

In such cases, they may feel like they are falling asleep and drifting into unconsciousness with no knowledge of what happened to them, so they don’t even realize they’re dying until after the fact has already occurred