When you guys mentioned about medical staffs frequent predicting death.
You are right, we often predict death at work, due to our experiences, often very accurate. Not extremely accurate like by hours or minutes, but we usually know such as around this morning, afternoon, evening or overnight.
If you consider ascendant as the first breath of the physical body, how medical staffs predict death is by assess their organs function, such as respiratory funciton. For nurses, we only need to assess oxygen requirement, inspecting the work of breathing and hear the way they "breath" (you don't even need to use stethoscope). That LOUD breathing sound of approaching the end of life, once you heard it you will never forget....when that kind of breathing sound started, you just know death is coming in a matter of few hours; that is the time, nurses started calling patient's family to come in.
A bit side tracking here:
And very true, we see the Pluto at work on chronically ill patients ALL the time...And the TRANSFORMATION to the physical body when a patient approaching death is EXTREME....We often seeing the transformation takes as long as months and weeks or as fast as hour or minutes, the body starting to change in color, shape, texture of the skin, smell of the body etc...the transformation comes with extreme measurements. THAT is Pluto at work in an visible form on a human's body. Don't forget the after death, body also start to decay, eventually we all become dust and dirt.
My teacher, teaches me astrology by reminding me to observe the world around me, he said that is HOW you learn about rulership and planets/sign etc and obviously including my workplace. When things started to build up on a patient (physically, psychologically, emotionally and spiritually even socially) I can imaging how or what kind of transits approaching or interactions of planets in different signs to this patient and the effects.