Hearing is the last to go

I read an article recently about a 2020 study in which scientists concluded that hearing is the last human faculty to go. They found that as we approach death, even into unconsciousness, and well after all other human faculties have been lost, our brains still register sounds and spoken words.  That seems like poetic justice to me since I spend so much of my conscious life not listening.  Thankfully, I still have some conscious time left (though one never knows how much) to even the scales a bit.