This shows up in the aura in many different ways, sometimes weeks or months before any physical symptoms appear. An ear infection, for example, will show up in an aura as a gradually thickening shadow over the ear and side of the head. This can be seen several days before any physical symptoms appear. The shadow will begin as a light-grey smudge, gradually thickening and darkening. It will eventually change to a murky-green patch, about the size of your hand. As the infection worsens it will become shot through with red and orange streaks, flecks and sparks.
A shadow in the aura is the first sign of any approaching health problem. Murky-green, with red and orange streaks, flecks and sparks, is common to infection.

When a person is dying, their aura undergoes dramatic changes. I have observed the auras of people, dying of terminal cancer and other diseases, in the weeks prior to their death. The first noticeable sign is when the aura fades and begins to grow weaker and paler. Next (with long term illness) a week or so before physical death, the aura begins to expand and change. It changes into a beautiful (very pale) milky-blue, shot through with faint, tiny, silver and white sparks. These sparks flash and twinkle throughout the aura. Each spark is only visible for a fraction of a second at a time.

The aura of a dying person is a very pale milky-blue. It is VERY pale and faint and VERY difficult to see. It is quite common to see a pale-blue aura surrounding a healthy person, and this does NOT mean they are about to die. The aura of a dying person is quite different from a normal, healthy, pale-blue. It is all one colour, much larger than normal, very milky and very faint.
Closer to the time of death, the aura begins to pulsate, swelling and shrinking erratically. At times it will fill the entire room, becoming more of an atmosphere than an aura. At other times it will be so shrunken as to be almost invisible to auric sight. It grows paler and finer by the day, and the tiny silver and white sparks become finer and increase in frequency.

There is a great deal of activity in all the energy centers, at this time. The energy body is preparing itself for the final separation - of the physical body from the nonphysical body (or spirit). There are, at times, faint surges of colour and faint coloured sparks, like pastel fountains, surging and falling from the primary centers. They spasm and shudder and begin generating a much higher and more refined type of energy. This change heralds the imminent and final separation, of the spirit from the physical body - what we call death.

The above is not to be mistaken for the normal pale-blue and sparks that can be seen in a healthy human aura. The above observation is not visible to any normal level of auric sight, but requires some degree of clairvoyance, i.e., the ability to see mind's eye visions.

At some time (variable) before physical death, the aura will become almost invisible to auric sight. Only a faint, very pale glow will still be seen, close to the skin. This is residual etheric matter, clinging to the physical body. There is, however, still intense activity going on within the energy body, but this is now far beyond the reach of normal auric sight.

The aura is now reflecting itself into a much higher level of reality - another dimension. Clairvoyant and astral sight are necessary, in order to see any more energy activity, during the final stages of the death process.

At the actual moment of death, if you are watching closely, you will see a very faint, pale mist, surge up out of the body, and quickly vanish. This is the spirit leaving the physical body. That faint mist is residual etheric matter, clinging to the spirit body, as it departs.

The actual timing for these changes in the aura to occur, depend greatly upon the type of illness, the duration of it, and the strength of the dying person. These govern the speed of the actual death process. With some conditions, this whole process can happen very quickly, often a matter of hours. With other conditions, this may happen over several days, weeks or even months.