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This is totally a thing! https://med.virginia.edu/perceptual-studies/wp-content/uploads/sites/360/2019/02/Talgiazucchi-CC.pdf https://med.virginia.edu/perceptu

• mike_hock 3y ago
  It's interesting that the neuroprotective chemicals also happen to result in a pleasant feeling, as there would have been no evolutionary pressure whatsoever to make a physiological state that's almost exclusively experienced just before death feel like anything in particular. Anything from bliss to agonizing pain to nothing would have been equally viable.
  • Liquix 3y ago
    In fact there may be an evolutionary advantage in doing the opposite - flooding the system with stress/fear chemicals at the time of death. Predators would likely prefer to avoid tense, stringy meat reeking of primal panic and feces.
    • hydrok9 3y ago
      Doubtful, given the amount of large predators that eat carrion and prey on sick and weak individuals in a herd.