Chilling Last Words That Changed People’s Lives

It Haunts Me To This Day

I was a lifeguard for a long, long time. The worst words I ever heard were from this one kid who passed at my beach. I pulled him out of the water with a few other lifeguards, and we took turns performing rescue breathing.

He eventually became conscious and began to cough up his water. He was alive and active for a few minutes, and even said “Thank you” to me. Then, he sat up and immediately fell back down.

We thought he had just passed out, but it turned out that a few minutes later he passed from something called “Secondary Drowning” that they don’t cover nearly enough in the training for lifeguard certification.

This kid’s passing still haunts me to this day. I wish I could have been able to save him. Story credit: Reddit