What is the first sense to shut down when you die?

Question: What is the first sense to shut down when you die?
- Keywords:
  death,
  sense
Asked by dizzyg12 to Simon, Rachel on 19 Nov 2013.
- Simon Langley-Evans answered on 19 Nov 2013:
  
  Dizzyg12- I might have known this was your question 😉 You are really pushing us hard!
  
  I don’t think anybody knows because everyone who has died has not been able to talk about their experience afterwards. I would imagine though that sight would be the first thing to go as processing visual signals requires a lot of work by the brain, so as the brain shuts down it probably wouldn’t be maintained.

Question: What is the first sense to shut down when you die?