How Do You Know If You're Really Sick? Why humans may be able to sense their own life-threatening illness.

DEATH & psychology; SENSES; EPILEPSY; DIZZINESS; PATIENTS; CATASTROPHIC illness; ATTITUDES toward illness; PERINATAL death; CARDIAC arrest; EMERGENCY medical services; HEADACHE; SECOND trimester of pregnancy; INTRACRANIAL aneurysms

The article focuses on the ability of humans to sense their own life-threatening illness. It explains auras which are common in people who suffer from migraine and epilepsy and may come in a form of kaleidoscope of lights or the smell of burnt toast that can take place prior to the onset of a headache or seizure. It also talks about premonitions of death citing evidence that it is a real entity based on case reports and literature.