At the final stage of life, when a person kills his own soul before his actual death.

The Shaykh, the Imam, the Allaamah, the Shaykh of Islam, Abul-Faraj Abdur-Rahmaan ibn Ali ibn Muhammad ibn al-Jawzi (Rahimahullah), said:

“From the most interesting things is the alertness of the dying person at the time of his death – for he becomes perceptive to a degree which cannot be described, and worried to an extent that has no limits.

And he yearns for his times of old, and wishes that he be left so that he can make up for what passed him by, and so that he can be truthful in his repentance in accordance with the level of certainty he [now] has about death. And he – out of grief – almost kills his own soul before his [actual] death.