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Shaun Wilson-Miller, dying Australian teen touches millions with goodbye video

Shaun Wilson-Miller, 17, is dying. He suffers from chronic heart rejection. After his body failed to take to his second heart transplant, doctors told the Australian teen that his days were numbered. He cannot undergo a third transplant, they say.

He posted an emotional goodbye on YouTube, one that captured hearts of over 1 million viewers worldwide.

"This has been an awesome ride and I have no regrets," he says in the video.

Watch Wilson-Miller's moving video below.

NewsCore reports that since the video went viral, Wilson-Miller has seen many of his personal dreams fulfilled, which included "filming a guest role on 'Neighbours,' he has met his favorite Australian-rules footballer, Essendon captain Jobe Watson, and is writing his memoirs and has inspired a rap song."

These opportunities seem fitting, as Wilson-Miller was adamant in his video that his family and friends should live their lives to the fullest.

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Wilson-Miller's father, Cameron Miller, admits that funeral-planning has been difficult, especially since strangers will now also be affected by the death.

"I just pray that it's quick. I don't want him to suffer," he said.

"No parent should have to bury their child. But he's just loving life and he wants us to do the same. He doesn't want us to cry for him."

Wilson-Miller says that hardest part about facing death is leaving his girlfriend, a fellow heart patient, behind.

"The hardest thing for me is leaving her, knowing that I won't get to marry her. To have kids together. To grow old together," he telss the Herald Sun. "That is what makes me sad."