Matthew O'Reilly : “Am I dying?” The honest answer.

TED 2014
Matthew O'Reilly : “Am I dying?” The honest answer. (transcript)
Summary
We believe that the moment of death of a person is strictly terror and fear.
We think that we have to lie, we have to say that they're not dying even if they're already facing death.
We are afraid that if we tell them the truth that they would die, they would die in terror and fear in the last moments of their lives.
The speaker is a veteran emergency medical technician and he faces the moment of death of the person many times.
Then he understood that telling the truth to the patients of their imminent demise is important.
They already knew around them. They just wanted to hear something...
They just wanted to accept that they are dying.
They were not met with terror or fear of death when he told yes to them, and then there is a need for forgiveness there.
They said, “l wish I had spent more time with my children and grandchildren instead of being selfish with my time” “Will you remember me” and “ There was so much more I wanted to do with my life”.
Listening to them is a small thing though it gives you and them peace in their final moments.

Words in this story
adapt /verb/  modify, alter
adopt /verb/  take as one's child, be adoptive parents to, take in
strictly /adv/ severely, rigidly
emergency /noun/  crisis, urgent situation, extremity
demise /noun/   death, dying, passing, loss of life, end