lucidity
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Terminal lucidity refers to an unexpected return of mental clarity shortly before death, sometimes in people who had severe dementia or other conditions that had left them unable to communicate normally.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 30, 2026
The empirical challenge to the materialist position from terminal lucidity implies that consciousness can exist independently of the brain but isn’t necessarily “evidence for the human soul.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
By expressing disapproval in concrete ways, helpful protests can likely sear ethical lucidity into each of us more effectively and more often.
From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2025
As mother to Spike, Isla is clearly sick but still desperately trying to care for him, even while slipping in and out of lucidity - apparently ravaged with confusion from decades under siege.
From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2025
A short time before the death of Amaranta she suddenly stumbled into an open space of lucidity within the madness and she trembled before the uncertainty of the future.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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