Most deaths from cerebral infarction are due to respiratory failure caused by increased intracranial pressure in the brain and affected respiratory centers due to brain stem infarction, cerebellar infarction, and large cerebral infarction, or hemorrhage after cerebral infarction. The first three days before death may be characterized by confusion, inability to speak, inability to swallow, inability to move limbs, nausea, vomiting, vomiting of coffee-like substances, paroxysmal convulsions, high body temperature, rapid pulse, changes in the depth and frequency of respiration, limitation of eye movement, lack of response to painful stimuli, and urinary and fecal incontinence, and so on.