If you are reading this it is because I'm dead: here's what I want to tell you about how to live | Carlos Hernandez de Miguel

"Dear reader, for the first time since I became a journalist, I have to tell you I wish you weren't reading what I've written. Because if you're reading this, it means I'm no longer in this world or any other. I've died. Shit, it's hard to write this, but that's the way it is. I've died, and I don't want to leave without saying goodbye and sharing a few final thoughts."

"I've been a very fortunate person. I was fortunate to have been born in a European country that, although still under the yoke of Franco's regime, very soon afterwards began to progress economically, socially and politically. Luck, and it was only luck, made my destiny infinitely easier than that of hundreds of millions of children who are born in regions of the world ravaged by hunger, poverty and war."

"I can't say for sure, but I imagine that my last thought the last image that passes through my mind before I shut down will be of the children massacred in Gaza and of the surviving Palestinians who face a terrible future. What I do know is that I will leave this world without understanding why the international community chose to remain impassive while Israel perpetrated a genocide right before its eyes, broadcast live, minute by minute, massacre by massacre."

A person announces their own death and offers farewell remarks, expressing difficulty accepting the reality. They acknowledge being born in a European country that improved politically and economically after Franco, crediting luck for a comparatively privileged life. They contrast their fortunate upbringing with the suffering of children in regions ravaged by hunger, poverty, and war. The person imagines their final image will be the children massacred in Gaza and surviving Palestinians facing a bleak future. They express incomprehension and anger that the international community remained impassive while Israel committed what they describe as genocide, broadcast minute by minute. They affirm continued belief that rigorous, honest reporting can improve the world despite mistakes.

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