ICU nurse here: not what the patient said to me exactly, but one story sticks with me. Had a woman who was on comfort care (they had taken her off the ventilator) and the family and her husband of 50 or 60 something years had gone home for the night. I told them I would call them if her vitals sign started to indicate she was going to pass away. I gave them plenty of warning, however due to her husbands mobility issues they weren’t able to get him back to the hospital to be with her right when she died. So I called him on my cell phone and put him on speaker phone so he could speak to his wife for the last time. It was heart breaking hearing him say good bye, and that he didn’t know how he was going to go on without her. As a guy working in the icu I saw a lot of death, but this is one of the few that had me tearing up.