The young man who was not going back home..alive

Yesterday my son and I were waiting in front of the casualty room to see the doctor as we both were really sick with fever. There are about 101 different types of fevers going around including H1N1 with the arrival of monsoon. We saw a stretcher coming in and a young man lying with his eyes rolled back, only the whites of his eyes was seen. The duty doctor quickly went inside and then after a couple of seconds the stretcher came out with the patient in it with oxygen mask etc. They were taking him to the ward, and they went by right in front of us. I saw them pausing in front of the elevator and I then I heard my name being called and went inside to see the doctor.

As the doctor was prescribing medicines for me the phone in that room started ringing and the doctor attended the phone. After putting the phone down he told the nurse in the room that the patient died before even reaching the elevator. I don’t know what I felt when I heard that. When that person was passing in front of us, his life just left his body. When it left did it see all of us sitting there and watching? Did it come nearby us again on its way to where ever it was going? Where did it actually go? It felt like a movie, it didn’t look real. One second this person was alive and the next second he is no more. How fast did it happen? A lot of scenes went through my mind, the people at his home, totally unaware of what had happened to him going around doing their jobs and then suddenly they see him in an ambulance coming home dead. I was seeing that death could happen so fast, so quick, it doesn’t always give you time to say good bye to your loved ones, it takes you away totally unexpectedly and sometimes untimely. Those scenes are not going away from my mind, like rewinding a movie the images keeps coming back again and again. The stretcher coming in with the person with his eyes rolled back and then moving slowly towards the elevator and dying in between those few steps. So many unfinished things to be done, so many things to say, so many people to see, and so many things planned for future- all of them just vanished like thin air, like a bubble popped and gone.
I witnessed a guy just dying and I am wondering where the life in him had gone.