Can people smell death coming?
Death does have a smell, actually. It’s why people are so uncomfortable in hospitals and in hospice houses. Nursing homes are also pretty bad. I can’t describe the smell, but I have smelled it. It didn’t smell “bad” to me, it was just very thick and stifling. I smelled it around my mom for the last three weeks of her life. It was the worst the last time I saw her, about two days before she died. I can’t say for sure whether or not someone around you is going to die. There are phantom smells sometimes. Like occasionally, I’ll get a whiff of my mom’s perfume, or smell Old Spice and un-smoked tobacco (smells of my dad). It doesn’t mean they’re in the room with me. So I don’t know what to tell you as far as that’s concerned. I guess just wait and see, and if someone dies, then you’ll know.
