begins his story telling the world about the heart condition he was born with.hcm short for hypertrophic carddomyopathyease of the heart muscle most people couldn't tell he had.even when it showed.he was crossing the street at school one ime and he just dropped in the middle of the street from his heart condition and his friends helped him up and he just kept going and they laughed about it. he didn't take ittoverly seriously he went with it.doctors didn't expect ben to live past his early teens.the 18-year-old had a pacemaker put in two years ago...that gave him more energy, helped regulate his heart and stretch his limits. allowing him to spend more time on the lake, traael to alaska with his grandparents... and start making youtube videos.but there were signs his condition was getting worse.ben really wanted to be free from not being able to do some things and recently he was getting more tired and less able to do the things he would like to do. about a week before his death, around the time the westlake high school senior made this video, his parents knew he was ready to go.he had talked to us in p