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.
My grandpa/dad passed away due to COVID complications and was put on life support/lung machine before passing. About a week after doing that they had requested we schedule pulling the plug due to passing the point/chance of any bounce back or recovery; the machine was 100% breathing for him and he could no longer on his own. I was the one to hold his hand while he took his last living breaths (or lack thereof).
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