'I'm a hospice nurse - these are the common last words of dying patients'
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In the moments before death, it is difficult to imagine what your final words might be. Yet, one end-of-life nurse claims that many dying patients say similar things, with four phrases especially common in their last breaths. 'Thank you', 'I forgive you', 'Goodbye' and 'Please forgive me,' are the heart-breaking phrases that hospice nurse Julie McFadden hears very regularly. Though, in an interview with DailyMail.com, she asserted that it isn't quite like what you see in the movies.
"It's not usually at their last breath," the California-based medic told the publication. "A lot of people think it's like the movies — a dramatic, last proclamation of something they've always regretted or something they always wanted everyone to know. It's not really like that.".
Find out about the symptoms you need to watch out for and get health advice with our free health newsletter from the Mirror. Despite 16 years on the job, Julie revealed that some cases still baffle her about end-of-life experiences. In a separate conversation with NHS surgeon and podcaster Dr Karan Rajan, she spoke about people who 'choose when they are going to die' - though, it doesn't quite make sense.
According to GloucestershireLive, she said: "They basically will say, 'I'm going to die after this date' or 'I’ll wait for my daughter's wedding'. I've literally had a patient say; 'I'm dying tonight' and then die even though they weren't actively dying.".
