“Am I dying?” The honest answer, by Matthew O'Reilly (Nicole Trumper)

Matthew O’Reilly is a veteran emergency medical technician on Long Island, New York. He has been a first responder in a number of incidents where the patient is dying and he can’t do anything.

There’s a little- known documented medical term called “impending room” that is a symptom that happens when the patient is going to die.

He’s trained to respond to this symptom after reevaluate the patient’s condition.

The problem that he used to have was that he didn’t know if he had to tell them that they are dying or if the best answer is to lie for comfort them.

The first time he faces this trouble he didn’t know what was the best answer to the question: Am I going to die? , so he prefers to lied to the patient because he was afraid.

But this change five years later, when he responded to a motorcycle accident where the rider had suffered critical injuries and was dying.

Matthew decided to tell to the rider the truth, which he was going to die.

The patient only accepted the diagnostic and he felt in peace.

Since that moment Matthew always tells the truth to his patients.

There are a lot of reactions in front of this situation.

Most of the patients accepted and try to be in peace with theme.

Some find this moment for forgiveness about bad things that they had made.

There are some that need to be remember, they need to feel immortality and the last types of people are the ones who have to know that their life had meaning and that they don’t waste their life.

Nicole Trumper