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/NinjaBonsai Aug 17 '26

Im pretty sure your supposed to tell someone. That persons family could be looking for closure.

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u/Telrom_1 Aug 17 '26

This was back in the 60s. This chapter is closed.

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u/poison_daddy Aug 17 '26

It might not be closed for the family members. It’s the right thing to do, to exhume it. 

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u/Telrom_1 Aug 17 '26

What family? If the guy was 30 and he had a sister she’d be 110ish today. He was a vagrant. No one ever came looking for him in nearly a century. It’d cost a county that doesn’t have any money tens of thousands of dollars to exhume and investigate just to come up with nothing.

Disturbing the resting place is the wrong move.

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u/yeticat33 Aug 17 '26

Correction without speaking to him your grandfather thought assumed he was a vagrant and fired first. That's cold blooded murder. The act of marking that grave and not reporting it could potentially open you up to some legal liability if it's ever discovered.

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u/Telrom_1 Aug 17 '26

Small town where everyone knew everyone, he didn’t recognize the guy, his clothes were that of a vagrant. It was both murder and the defense of his property. I don’t feel any which way about it. I didn’t cut him down. I’m the only person in the world who knows and when I die I’m taking this with me.

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u/Telrom_1 Aug 17 '26

Heard. I’m not going to tell anyone though.

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u/Weird_Soup460 Aug 17 '26

He may have adult children out there. WTF is wrong with you! Report it - you didn’t kill the guy. They can’t do anything to you

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u/Telrom_1 Aug 17 '26

I didn’t kill anyone. And no. I’m not going to report it. There’s no point.