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(thing) by dannye (35.5 min) (print)   ?   (I like it!) Sun Mar 19 2000 at 3:46:04

This is the sound you hear in the chest of someone who has just OD'd on heroin or some other opiate. It sounds just like some marbles rattling around in their chest. It's caused by the loss of the normal cough reflex and the passage of breath through all that mucus building up.

If you should ever hear this sound, get the person to a hospital ASAP.


(thing) by dj (3.2 d) (print)   ?   (I like it!) 1 C! Mon Sep 25 2000 at 19:35:42

The death rattle is also the sound of a terminally ill person's breathing right before they die. Their breathing pattern usually switches over about an hour before they die. The Hospice nurse who explained this to me says she sees it in almost every case of terminal illness she encounters.

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