Signs of death from nine days down to one day (the senses)

When both eyebrows become deformed the person is said to live nine days, when a sound like the samudraghosha comes in the ears seven days, when the nose becomes deformed five or four days, when the light of the eyes is disordered three days, and when the sense of taste is deformed one day. Understanding this, a wise man who fears worldly existence should give up attachment to the body and leave it by the method the scriptures teach, that is, take up sallekhana.