In a 2009 article in The Journal of Near-Death Studies, German biologist Michael Nahm drew attention to an end-of-life phenomenon that had been recorded for millennia. He described it as "The (re-)emergence of normal or unusually enhanced mental abilities in dull, unconscious, or mentally ill patients shortly before death, including considerable elevation of mood and spiritual affectation, or the ability to speak in a previously unusual spiritualized and elated manner". Read more.