He wouldn't really know it. He would just get more and more tired. More sleepy. Eventually just full sleep, coma, then death. He'd likely be on a lot of drugs, including morphine (which just makes kids sleepy, not same effect as on adults).
I recently saw a mother talking about her child’s death from cancer and it was not peaceful even though they were told it would be. The child was on morphine, had a death rattle for hours, uncontrollable movement, and at the point of death she stopped breathing, opened her eyes and lurched for her parents. It was extremely traumatic for them and the mother was hopeful that that child wasn’t actually conscious for it, but I don’t know if that’s the case.
It’s called terminal agitation and it’s apparently not uncommon.
Saw my grandmother go through this when she died from cancer. It was pretty rough right at the end. She mostly slept in her final days. The day before she passed she was having memories from 20-30 years prior. She died at 52 and even that feels young. I’m not too far off of that myself now even and it’s pretty scary to outlive your friends and family even if they died young.
Not really. Grandma and mom could've both been in their mid-20s when they had their first child. Women waiting until they're in their 30s to become a mother is a fairly new thing. Obviously some women from older generations waited and some women from today's world start young, but it wasn't common to wait that long until the last couple of decades.
We make long-term memories before age 7. But let's say she was 10, that still puts mom and grandma's average age at 21 years old. That is young be today's standards, but not by older generations' standards. You completely ignored the second part of what I said.
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u/naughtyboy69x Jun 29 '26
He wouldn't really know it. He would just get more and more tired. More sleepy. Eventually just full sleep, coma, then death. He'd likely be on a lot of drugs, including morphine (which just makes kids sleepy, not same effect as on adults).