People with advanced Alzheimer's disease have occasionally been reported to suddenly recognize loved ones, recall long–forgotten memories and hold coherent conversations shortly before death in a phenomenon known as terminal lucidity
For nearly five years, an elderly woman with advanced Alzheimer's disease hadn't spoken.
Then, one afternoon, while lying in bed surrounded by her two daughters and granddaughter, she suddenly became lucid.
For almost two hours, she carried on what witnesses described as a perfectly ordinary conversation. She spoke openly about her fear of dying, discussed disagreements she had with the church and asked after relatives she hadn't recognized in years.
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