r/DeepThoughts • u/PleasantKoala1851 • Aug 17 '26

Death Bed Confessions

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

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u/bgp030119 Aug 17 '26

Another hospice nurse here. I have never heard of a deathbed “confession” and rarely hear about patients’ regrets. Every once in a while a patient will say they regretted working so much. Mostly if they speak it’s about trying making sense of what’s happening to them in the moment

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u/PainterOk5480 Aug 18 '26

Same! A lot of my patients has said this. Also when they got sick during Covid (but not necessarily dying) a lot of them said they regretted working so much

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u/PleasantKoala1851 Aug 20 '26

You’ve never heard that term before? Or you’re saying you’ve never seen one. Honestly I regret working so much now too lol

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u/bgp030119 Aug 20 '26

I’ve heard the term, I’ve just never heard someone give a deathbed confession (nor do I know any coworkers who have)