Dying person
Someone in the final phase of life — the presence at the edge of an unrepeatable departure.
A dying person in a dream is the dream's image of presence at the edge of an unrepeatable departure. The dying person is not a corpse; the dying person is still here, and the situation is asking you to be present before there is nothing left to be present to. The dream brings the figure when something in your life is in its final phase — a relationship, a role, an elderly relative, a self — and the question is whether you will arrive in time. A dying person sat with calmly is the dream telling you the leave-taking is being done. A dying person left alone is the dream noting that the window for being present has been deprioritised in favour of other tasks, and the window is closing.