[giantg2]

They're just theorizing here. Generally that would be something to say to console someone, just like "They're in a better place". It could be just as likely that if the person had strong memories of traumatic experiences, they could be remembering them.

[awb]

Yeah, it sounds like the researcher is looking at this data through the lens of consoling surviving family members.

> “As a neurosurgeon, I deal with loss at times. It is indescribably difficult to deliver the news of death to distraught family members,” he said.

[xwdv]

It seems likely to me it depends on the person dying.

If you always saw yourself as a victim, if you wallowed in the trauma and abuse that life gave you, then your final moments are likely spent remembering all that trauma and how shitty and unfair your life was, and convincing yourself you’re better off dead and gone far away from this world. A crude way to die.

[wing-_-nuts]

Whatever the truth, this is a pretty unempathetic view of trauma. People don't wallow in it, some simply don't escape it.