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A UK-wide survey of 104 Marie Curie palliative care staff found that 97% had witnessed at least one deathbed phenomenon in five years — an average of 7.7 each. Visions of deceased relatives, terminal lucidity in dementia patients, clocks stopping at the moment of death. And yet a chart audit found only 8.3% of these events ever get documented. This episode works through the research literature on end-of-life experiences: what palliative nurses, doctors, and death doulas actually report, how religious and non-religious staff converge on calling these experiences spiritual at identical rates, and why the biochemical delirium framing explains the experience but not the content. The question isn't whether ghosts are real. It's what the people closest to death believe — and why they only say it in the break room. Episode #419236 — open it directly at myweirdprompts.com/419236