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你拥有面对死亡的勇气吗？面对死亡时你会怎么办？当有人问及“我快死了吗？”之后，会发生什么？听听Matthew O'Reilly 怎么回答这些问题的吧！“我快死了吗？”之后，会发生什么。
演讲者：Matthew O'Reilly
片长：05：37
I've been a critical care EMT for the past seven years in Suffolk County, New York. I've been a first responder in a number of incidents ranging from car accidents to Hurricane Sandy.
过去的七年间我是纽约萨福克郡的一位特危急救人员。我曾在不少事故中第一批到达现场这些事故中有车祸也有飓风桑迪。
If you are like most people, death might be one of your greatest fears. Some of us will see it coming. Some of us won't. There is a little-known documented medical term called impending doom. It's almost a symptom.As a medical provider, I'm trained to respond to this symptom like any other, so when a patient having a heart attack looks at me and says, "I'm going to die today," we are trained to reevaluate the patient's condition.
如果你跟大部分人一样，死亡可能是你最大的恐惧之一。有的人会预感它的来临。有的人则不能。有一个很少有人知道的医务术语叫做”垂死状态“。这可以说是一个症状。作为一个医务人员，我被训练过用平常心来对待垂死状态的病人，所以当一个心脏病突发的病人看着我说 “我今天就要死了”的时候，我们被训练要重新评估这个病人的情况。
Throughout my career, I have responded to a number of incidents where the patient had minutes left to liveand there was nothing I could do for them. With this, I was faced with a dilemma: Do I tell the dying that they are about to face death, or do I lie to them to comfort them? Early in my career, I faced this dilemma by simply lying. I was afraid. I was afraid if I told them the truth, that they would die in terror, in fear, just grasping for those last moments of life.
