“I want to tell everyone everything, but I can’t.”
“I have done hospice work, home health care, and worked in a nursing home.
The best was in a nursing home with an [older] man.
He opened his eyes, smiled, and said, ‘It’s such a lovely day.
Don’t let this spoil it.’
It really was a perfect Spring day; he passed about five minutes later.”
(Cont’d) “The saddest was a lady in hospice care.
She kept saying, ‘Not until they’re all here!
Not until they’re all here!’
The family finally admitted she had a son that she had disowned many years prior.
They tried to locate him but weren’t successful.
She died crying for her boy.”
Waterproof_soap
3.
“A few stay with me.
For context, [I’m a] paramedic.
It’s so common that ‘a sense of impending doom’ is a legitimate symptom.”
“A dying man to his daughter.
‘Honey, I’m sorry, but I have to go.'”
Wooden-Emotion-9875
5.
She went into cardiac arrest mid-sentence.
We didn’t notice the phone when doing CPR until after she was pronounced dead.
The husband listened to the entire thing."
“‘I want to tell everyone everything, but I can’t.’
Panicked, pumped full of morphine.
Not sinister, just too much left unsaid.”
Rude_Tap_6865
7.
“Never really had any scary ones.
A nurse popped to the shops and got him one.
He ate it and then closed his eyes and died.
The dude just had to get one last Cornetto in.
“I was a third-year medical student and was assigned a patient with end-stage hepatic encephalopathy.
His vitals were crashing; they called an RRT, and we ran in to assess.
We asked, ‘Sir sir, are you alright?’
And his answer was as if a child was asking, ‘Ice cream, just.’
He became unresponsive right after and died.
His plaintiff little whimper for ice cream fucked me up.”
Awesam
9.
“I work as a paramedic.
[A man crashed his motorcycle] into an electric box by a stop light.
He ended up in the wood line in a forest preserve.
He was injured, but not that badly.
We ran it as a traumatic accident and transported him to a nearby trauma center.
He was awake and talking en route.”
I’m dying right now.
The ER doc screamed at us for not having him intubated, and so on.
I told the doctor what happened, and he immediately apologized.”
Excellent_Chair_4391
10.
“I was in the Army.
One of my fellow soldiers was able to call their parents on a satellite phone during their death.
The parents were in shock.
I had to take the phone to let them know their child was gone.
I relive this scene on repeat in my nightmares.”
“I had a patient that was on the ICU unit.
He just kept saying, ‘like just call my mom.
She will come get me, I swear.
kindly, I just want my mom.
like, I won’t do anything else just get my mom.
I want my mom.’
He was 96.”
Apollyon314
12.
He proceeded to code multiple times.
[We] ended up pronouncing him dead about an hour and a half later.
I think those who are alert and are going to die know it’s coming."
lospolloshermonos357
13.
“Maybe not the best last words, but a good story nonetheless.
His wife passed a week before he did.
He had been to the hospital exactly twicewhen he was born and when he died.
Went on a lift assist last year.
I tried forever to get this woman up off of her bathroom floor.
She was a very large woman, so we had to call the fire department for help.
From loading her into the ambulance to when I climbed in, she went intopulseless v-tachand died.
It was so surreal.”
white_mage_dot_exe
15.
His words were incoherent, but you could feel they were full of anger."
Heroic-Forger
16.
“I spoke with the medic who worked on my son.
The last thing he said was, ‘I think I did something really stupid.’
Then he went to sleep and never woke back up.”
“I worked in a senior care home for many years.
while looking at the corner of the room a couple of hours before death.
Another one told a care aide that her husband was waiting.”
Zinfandel
And lastly:
18.
“I volunteered at a hospice in my 20s.
I sort of got roped into the role but eventually came to enjoy the setting.
It was a hospice for men dying of HIV.
When I arrived home, there was police tape surrounding my apartment building.
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