The next day I went to work and the patient was still there. They had gotten consent from the family for withdrawal of care. As a non-surivable he had lowest priority for the ICU so the chronic bed shortage left him lying in the ED for 24 hours. I was asked to pronounce him. His dad was at the bedside, we remembered each other from the tense moments we had shared the night before. I told him I was sorry iot had come to this and he said "He was a good son." I pronounced him and he was dead. His father left.