Dr. Feargal Twomey:

That is a good question. They vary from person to person. A lot of it is existential. In my experience, when people are dying a lot of it is about, "Have I lived enough? Have I loved enough? Have I been loved enough? Is there anything I have not let go?" It was mentioned earlier that it is very important how people die. People who have an illness that will threaten their life never forget how they heard it and their families will never forget how they died. Both for the patients and for the people involved, as in an individual who is dying and who dies, and the family carers who are those they know and trust around them, all have a spirituality which is their own. People see spiritually genuinely in art, music-----