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The young boy lay very still in a hospital bed. His skin was punctured with tubes inserted at different points in his body.

He was minutes away from death. A much older woman sits beside him weeping into her hands. 

There is a thick stream of phlegm that pours from his mouth and stains his bedspread. Talking for him is hard. The mucus that sits in his throat makes a gurgling sound everytime he tries to speak. 

Every few seconds the tubes fill with blood and draw it away from his body and drip-drops onto the floor.

His complexion is growing grey. His breathing slows down to 5 or 6 breaths per minute now. 

His mother weeps louder. As she cries out, the boy reaches out and pushes his finger into her nose. As his finger enters her nostril, she strokes his hand, to comfort him.

His nail scratches the inside of his mothers nose. His sharp nail scratches at the cartilage in her nose. He's furiously scratching her flesh. Red raw claret leaks from her face and runs down the boys hand.

The boy yanks his finger from his mothers nose. His arm has an uncontrollable seizure. It flaps furiously around, as if being shocked by electricity.

It's at this moment the boy passes away. As the sound of flatline rings out around the hospital, his mother weeps like the banshee.