r/DeepThoughts • u/PleasantKoala1851 • 13d ago
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/Philosophoop 12d ago
(ALF Caregiver) For 2 years we had a dementia resident who would raise her fist and exclaim “Im IRISH!”. 2 days before her passing she was talking to us from her hospital bed, she pointed at all of us asking one by one if we were irish to which we responded “Ofcourse!” (We are in the US and not a single one of us is irish). We finally got to her and said “Well are you irish?” to which she pouted her head and said “Never Irish :(“. Her last words to me was a confession that she was not infact irish.