The Fading

Experts call it Maledictio Mortis Prolongatae,
Doctors call it in it's medical term, The PDP,
The Prolonged Death Phenomenon-but everyone else just calls it The Fading.

A palliative-care specialist at a fancy university states that dying is a process of losing our senses in a specific order as our body begins to shut down.

From hunger and thirst.

To taste and smell.

To sight.

To touch.

And finally, hearing.

God forbid someone opened another Pandora's Box, or maybe the universe just thought we hadn't suffered enough, but the process of dying became longer. Slower. A rare phenomenon.

They say it occurs to 1 in every 1, 755,000 people.
Unlikely, but not impossible.