There’s so much we don’t understand about the end of life.
During all the chaos, she was conscious.
Within minutes, an emergency hysterectomy was attempted, during which she coded.
I’m not sure anyone else heard.
Was she announcing her passing to tell us we could stop?
It was a gentle utterance within a nightmare."
anonymous
2.
That spooked the crap out of me, and I made a quick exit!"
“I was a respiratory therapist, and a man said, ‘Look at all the beautiful flowers!’
He then passed away.”
“My son passed away at 35.
He had an addiction to alcohol.
Magically, he survived that incident.
People never survive a second time in ICU with the illness you have.'
He told me it scared him, and he would do what it took to be sober.
That night, he was rushed to the hospital.
I still long for a walk with my boy.”
smartlegend40
5.
She stated: ‘Oh hey don’t sit there my angel is sitting there!'"
“I’m a former pediatric emergency registered nurse and have a heartbreaking one.
I’m crying even now remembering it.
Grandma is coming to take me to that park!
She said she loves you and we’ll see you later.
Love you, Mama!
And she was gone 15 minutes later.”
“I once cared for an elderly gentleman with dementia who was slowly declining.
He didn’t speak much, and when he did, he didn’t make sense.
That night, he was transferred to the ICU and passed away.
That was the last thing he ever said.”
fluffyalligator20
8.
“A friend of mine, a Buddhist, was dying of cancer.
It is said that when you die you will be greeted by a thousand Buddhas.
She then passed away with a smile on her face.”
“My father-in-law was known for his lectures on life.
It drove me up the wall when he’d come over unannounced.
When he went to hospice, I was the only one who would sit with him.”
The last night, he ‘woke’ up and said, ‘Hi Brenda, how are you doing?’
He sounded so happy!
Then he went back to dreaming in his morphine land.
About midnight, I got up to go and bent down to kiss his forehead.
He grabbed my hand and said, ‘I’ve got to go.’
And he went."
We were not Southerners, nor did we live in the South.
I’d never heard such a deep and incredulous Southern accent from him before.
And those were his final words.
I felt the life leave his body then, and I told the EMTs to stop with the CPR.
He was gone."
“I’m an ER doctor.
One afternoon, a young man in his late 30s came in with chest pain.
He was having an ST elevation MI (heart attack), which was surprising given his young age.
She was still about 45 minutes away from the hospital.
He looked absolutely terrified.
I looked him straight in the eye and said, ‘You’re going to be fine.
We do this all of the time.’
He died on the table.
His artery dissected (tore) during the procedure.
It haunts me to this day.”
“My husband died of ALS in his 50s.
He woke up and told my mom this was the best he had felt in years.
A few minutes later, he told my mum his stomach was really hurting.
Mum told him she would make him some tea.
When she returned to the bedroom, he was down on his knees talking to some unseen person.
He looked at my mum, said, ‘I’m going now,’ and then passed away.
Mum always believed some heavenly person had come to get him.”
“Years ago, my uncle was in the process of dying.
He took in his last breath, then woke up and said to his mother, ‘Oh, Mom!
You have to get ready it’s so beautiful over there.’
He died peacefully, having given the family a glimpse of heaven.”
“My husband had a tragic accident with multiple broken bones and punctured lungs.
Before he lost consciousness, he said, ‘I’m so sorry.
I love you.’
He died two days later, having never regained consciousness.”
That was 24 years ago (he was 54).
He made dying look so peaceful."
She went into cardiac arrest and died."
“My 89-year-old mother told my father, ‘Bill, lets make a break for it.'”
“A young man in his 20s received a cut at work that would not heal.
He went to the doctor to find out he had leukemia.
Treatment failed, and he went into hospice care.
When he asked us to call his family to his side, we knew the time was close.
After loving goodbyes to his loved ones, he stated, ‘Time for me to go.
The Angels are here.’
He died shortly after these last words a beautiful exit from this world.”
“My brother-in-law was dying.
My husband, his brother, and I stayed during the night shift.
His breathing took a bad turn, and the nurses said we should call in family.
My husband left to do that, leaving me in the room with him.
He shot up suddenly, reaching out toward something, and said one small word: ‘Oh!’
It was a pure moment of total vulnerability and innocent beauty.
And then he laid there and just died.
I was in awe of it, and I still am.”
He’s all around us.’
“My Dad collapsed suddenly in our hallway.
After he fell down, I yelled, ‘Should I call an ambulance?’
and he clearly replied with ‘No!’
despite already no longer breathing.
We did, of course, call emergency services immediately after realizing it was serious and started reanimation.
Thank you so much for that, Dad.
Your last word made it an easy decision.”
Those were her last words.
She was 106."
“I was working as a nurse in a nursing home, doing the morning med pass.
I was in front of his room with the med cart when she pushed past it.
I reminded her she wasn’t supposed to go into his room until he was out of bed.
She said, ‘I just need to say goodbye.
I’m going to see my mother, and I probably won’t be back.’
The staff went running to catch her while I continued passing out meds.
She had literally walked out the door and dropped dead.
Or, as she put it, she went to see her mother and didn’t come back.”
Anyway, my father was on his deathbed at the age of 86.
Dad winked at me and said, ‘I’m ready to go home, son.'"
