A woman with a year of Alzheimer's silence sits up, recites a childhood hymn to her son by name, then never speaks again before dying a month later. Neuroscientists call this terminal lucidity, and it's stranger than it sounds: it happens in roughly 6 percent of hospice deaths, in brains that have already lost up to half their synapses.

— via Psyche (Aeon sister), Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston