Over the years, different accounts from family members, caregivers and health professionals have coincided in a perception that usually generates concern: the appearance of a particular smell in people who are in the final stages of life. This phenomenon, often difficult to describe precisely, moves between subjective experience, clinical observation and the limits of what medical science can explain with total certainty. Addressing this topic requires care, respect, and an informative approach that avoids exaggerated or sensationalist interpretations. Olfactory research
The smell that some people perceive before death: what science says and why it happens
