Gangrene
Gangrene — flesh dying while the body lives on — often touches the dread of irreversible loss, a decay that can't be reversed. The dream may ask where you sense something in your life past saving, what you fear losing of those closest to you, and how you face a creeping deterioration that won't respond to ordinary care or hope.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for gangrene, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
To dream that you see any one afflicted with gangrene, foretells the death of a parent or near relative.