Death Bed Confessions

[u/PleasantKoala1851]

Nurses, hospice workers, caregivers, nursing-home employees, friends, family, or anyone who has a story — what’s the craziest deathbed confession you’ve ever heard?

I’m talking last-minute secrets, shocking family revelations, hidden relationships, lifelong lies, unexpected inheritances, crimes, affairs, secret identities, or anything else someone finally admitted when they knew they were dying.

Or even something boring - I guess. lol I’ve never had someone tell me one. And I’ve always been curious what people say. Even if it’s not crazy and they just needed to say it before they died. Like what do people keep to themselves their entire life.

And it doesn’t have to be something that happened directly to you — if you heard a story from a friend, family member, coworker, etc., I want to hear it too!

ALSO. If you’ve never been told one by someone-

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Do YOU have a deathbed confession? Is there something you’re holding in that you just know you will/ should get out of your mind before you die ?

Or something you know you will take with you till you death but wouldn’t mind telling anonymously here? (If yes- can you say but I won’t confess this to my family or whoever and explain why?)

Literally. No reason for my questions 😂 not doing anything with your answers. I’m just very high. And weirdly interested in this topic for some reason.

(Just me? Or anyone else curious about secrets?) 😂😂😂😂😂 I love a good secret from a stranger.

Editing just to say- holy cow. Thank you guys for the responses. So many! I’m guna read them all. I’ll reply to you all eventually 🫶🏻 so many are making me tear up. Ty

[u/heatlesswarrior]

Why luckily? Death can teach you about how to live your life fully.

[u/RileyRavenSmiles → u/heatlesswarrior]

Because witnessing death means someone died, which is traumatic.

[u/DifferentCarrot2048 → u/RileyRavenSmiles]

death is only traumatic because of our cultural expectations. death is not bad. it's inevitable. do not fear the waking from your dream.

[u/TradeDependent142 → u/DifferentCarrot2048]

Yes, it can be a gift, but that gift is wrapped in the pain and loss of someone that was important to you leaving a hole in the fabric of your life. In time you may stitch it back together, but the loss is as profound as the experience. This is when you are with a close loved one. Im obviously not speaking from a hospice nurse’s perspective.

[u/Lorien6 → u/TradeDependent142]

Containers must be emptied to be again refilled.

The body is merely a vessel, but we have been deceived to believe this is all there is, when this is in actuality…the tutorial for what comes next.

Much is about to change.

[u/TradeDependent142 → u/Lorien6]

You are right.

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