User blog comment:AdmiralPedro1stFleet/FANS PLEASE READ. Drew Karpyshyn's ORIGINALLY INTENDED ENDING/@comment-1440333-20130525133723/@comment-1786741-20130525202759

Either way, I'm still not sure how that "breath scene" happened other than to try and placate the people that wanted to see Shepard live. In that scenario, it'd be nothing more than his/her LAST breath.