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A while ago, us shared some of the most terrifying deathbed confessions and last words nurses have ever heard from patients. Other nurses in the BuzzFeed Community have then made their own contribution, so here are some more wild stories.1.“I’m a nurse. When I was a student I took care of a lady with end stage renal failure. She had a DNAR (‘Do not attempt CPR’) and stopped. We had a chat – well I was chatting while I was helping her apply lotion – when she stopped, looked over my shoulder and said, “Bill’s here, honey. I have to go.” She then quickly stopped breathing. I read her old notes and discovered that Bill was her late husband.”2.“My grandmother confessed to murder on her deathbed. Normally you would think it was the pain relief, but she was such an eccentric woman that it was actually believable. We tracked down all her ex-husbands, partners and other possible candidates and luckily no one was missing or died an untimely death, but sometimes I wonder…”3.“When I was an EMT, we came to the scene and found an old man who was already dead. He was on vacation with his wife and two grown children. Apparently he had said to his family that morning, ‘I’m going to die today .’ After he collapsed, he briefly regained consciousness and said, “See? I told you I was going to die,” before he passed out and then passed away. His poor son cried as he said, “That’s Daddy. Always have to be right.”‘”4.“I am a practicing paramedic for advanced care. One evening we received a call to the apartment of a 29-year-old man who had become seriously ill with COVID. He had refused to go to the ER the week before, so by the time we got there it was too late CPR lasted four and a half minutes I got him back but he would fade This happened three times During the third and final time he came back and was with me for just enough time to say, ‘Two worlds await us: one beautiful and one with fire. Please, I don’t want to go anymore.'”5.“I was taking care of a demented World War II veteran. He said the number ’22’ over and over and his family never knew what it meant. The number didn’t correspond to any major events or dates they The day before he died , his mental state became incredibly clear and he started telling the staff, “Twenty-two men… I killed 22 men there.” Poor man. He lived with that fear for over 50 years.’6.“I’m a white male. I’ve worked with a lot of elderly people as a registered nurse. I had a guy who was 90 and older who talked about how he was part of the Ku Klux Klan in his youth and how he was embarrassed about participating in really gross and despicable behavior. He had several nursing assistants and patient care technicians who were black or Hispanic, and he was always so polite and sometimes even loving to them. I could see how deeply his past haunted him. He did not ask me this information with any of the staff “The last few days before he became too weak to speak, he asked one of the black RNs if she forgave him. He died a few days later.”7.“Doctor here. Working in the Deep South, I have heard the last words of many patients about the regrets they have for disowning their LGBTQ children and the relationships they could have had. Sadly, rigid religious/political dogmas are tearing up more families than most people realize. Life is short. Accept people – especially the ones you love – as they are and not who you would like them to be. That’s always been my big lesson from hearing this stories.’8.“During my first year as a nurse, I worked in palliative care. There was a 28-year-old dying of cancer. She had moved here from Canada to be with her boyfriend, who left her a year after she moved. didn’t expect her to deteriorate so quickly. I held her hand as she died alone, without her family or friends. But just before she died, she cried and told me that she wished she had never left Canada. Her family was abroad and I couldn’t make it on time. I will always remember this heartbreaking moment. It reminds me to regularly tell my family I love them, to spend time with friends and to stop making excuses .”9.“I had an old patient I worked with who would never talk unless his daughter was in the room. She had asked about her stepmother, who had passed away a few years earlier, and her death was the reason he had to come to the nursing home. One of the days after she left, I got him ready for bed, and the last thing he said before he died was, ‘I should have done the job of drowning her and setting the house on fire. to stab.’10.“I used to plan fundraising events and hold a memorial candlelit walk around our hospice campus every year. For a year, a hospice patient was in the house. Somehow she felt she was in her last hours on the morning of the event, and she told her family, “Don’t worry. I’m leading the parade today.” The family had no idea what she was talking about, but she eventually died later that day. Her family saw us setting up the memorial walk and asked what we were doing. When we told them, they all started laughing and crying. They took pictures with them that evening and led the procession.”11.“One patient had to undergo a very routine, fairly minor operation. Before he went down, he said, ‘I’m going to die. I know I’m going to die.’ I held his hand and told him it would be okay. He died shortly after the procedure.”12.“My grandfather, a Sicilian man of blessed cooking skills, told us on his deathbed that his meatballs were actually frozen supermarket meatballs.”13.“EMT here. My most chilling experience ever involved an old woman who was heavily Christian judging by the family feel and home decor. She was struggling to breathe and her last words were, ‘I don’t feel anything. I thought this was better would be.” .’ Yes, after that I was depressed for a full month.”14.“My friend, who is a nurse, told me about an elderly patient she had. The woman apparently woke up late at night and told her, ‘I need to fart’ in Spanish.) and went into a brief coma and died three hours later. There was just enough time for her daughter to come in and say goodbye. After she died, the room smelled like ass from her fart for a few more days. They left the windows open over the weekend, and it concierge staff did everything they could to get rid of the smell. In the investigation, the family reported that the room smelled. The supervising nurse had to have a little meeting with everyone about keeping the rooms clean. I just think about it sometimes.”15.“I have witnessed several last words during my time in the ER. The wildest was when a man was brought in after a severe heart attack. Shortly before he passed out and went into cardiac arrest, he muttered, ‘The fire! The fire ! It burns!'”16.And finally: “I had a patient whose memory had been fading for years. It’s weird… right before a patient dies, sometimes things suddenly seem to get a lot better. Anyway, he thought I had died wife. I played along and just listened to him as he remembered his engagement, his marriage, the birth of his first child and a few other memories. At one point he said, “Oh! Irene, there you are! Sorry, you know my eyes aren’t as good as they used to be. Well, thanks for listening to an old man tell his stories. I hope someday you will have great stories to tell too. I’m coming, Irene.’ Then he passed.”Nurses share latest ‘deathbed confessions’ of patients,
A while ago, us shared some of the most terrifying deathbed confessions and last words nurses have ever heard from patients. Other nurses in the BuzzFeed Community have then made their own contribution, so here are some more wild stories.
1.“I’m a nurse. When I was a student I took care of a lady with end stage renal failure. She had a DNAR (‘Do not attempt CPR’) and stopped. We had a chat – well I was chatting while I was helping her apply lotion – when she stopped, looked over my shoulder and said, “Bill’s here, honey. I have to go.” She then quickly stopped breathing. I read her old notes and discovered that Bill was her late husband.”
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2.“My grandmother confessed to murder on her deathbed. Normally you would think it was the pain relief, but she was such an eccentric woman that it was actually believable. We tracked down all her ex-husbands, partners and other possible candidates and luckily no one was missing or died an untimely death, but sometimes I wonder…”
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3.“When I was an EMT, we came to the scene and found an old man who was already dead. He was on vacation with his wife and two grown children. Apparently he had said to his family that morning, ‘I’m going to die today .’ After he collapsed, he briefly regained consciousness and said, “See? I told you I was going to die,” before he passed out and then passed away. His poor son cried as he said, “That’s Daddy. Always have to be right.”‘”
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4.“I am a practicing paramedic for advanced care. One evening we received a call to the apartment of a 29-year-old man who had become seriously ill with COVID. He had refused to go to the ER the week before, so by the time we got there it was too late CPR lasted four and a half minutes I got him back but he would fade This happened three times During the third and final time he came back and was with me for just enough time to say, ‘Two worlds await us: one beautiful and one with fire. Please, I don’t want to go anymore.'”
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5.“I was taking care of a demented World War II veteran. He said the number ’22’ over and over and his family never knew what it meant. The number didn’t correspond to any major events or dates they The day before he died , his mental state became incredibly clear and he started telling the staff, “Twenty-two men… I killed 22 men there.” Poor man. He lived with that fear for over 50 years.’
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6.“I’m a white male. I’ve worked with a lot of elderly people as a registered nurse. I had a guy who was 90 and older who talked about how he was part of the Ku Klux Klan in his youth and how he was embarrassed about participating in really gross and despicable behavior. He had several nursing assistants and patient care technicians who were black or Hispanic, and he was always so polite and sometimes even loving to them. I could see how deeply his past haunted him. He did not ask me this information with any of the staff “The last few days before he became too weak to speak, he asked one of the black RNs if she forgave him. He died a few days later.”
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7.“Doctor here. Working in the Deep South, I have heard the last words of many patients about the regrets they have for disowning their LGBTQ children and the relationships they could have had. Sadly, rigid religious/political dogmas are tearing up more families than most people realize. Life is short. Accept people – especially the ones you love – as they are and not who you would like them to be. That’s always been my big lesson from hearing this stories.’
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8.“During my first year as a nurse, I worked in palliative care. There was a 28-year-old dying of cancer. She had moved here from Canada to be with her boyfriend, who left her a year after she moved. didn’t expect her to deteriorate so quickly. I held her hand as she died alone, without her family or friends. But just before she died, she cried and told me that she wished she had never left Canada. Her family was abroad and I couldn’t make it on time. I will always remember this heartbreaking moment. It reminds me to regularly tell my family I love them, to spend time with friends and to stop making excuses .”
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9.“I had an old patient I worked with who would never talk unless his daughter was in the room. She had asked about her stepmother, who had passed away a few years earlier, and her death was the reason he had to come to the nursing home. One of the days after she left, I got him ready for bed, and the last thing he said before he died was, ‘I should have done the job of drowning her and setting the house on fire. to stab.’
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10.“I used to plan fundraising events and hold a memorial candlelit walk around our hospice campus every year. For a year, a hospice patient was in the house. Somehow she felt she was in her last hours on the morning of the event, and she told her family, “Don’t worry. I’m leading the parade today.” The family had no idea what she was talking about, but she eventually died later that day. Her family saw us setting up the memorial walk and asked what we were doing. When we told them, they all started laughing and crying. They took pictures with them that evening and led the procession.”
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11.“One patient had to undergo a very routine, fairly minor operation. Before he went down, he said, ‘I’m going to die. I know I’m going to die.’ I held his hand and told him it would be okay. He died shortly after the procedure.”
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12.“My grandfather, a Sicilian man of blessed cooking skills, told us on his deathbed that his meatballs were actually frozen supermarket meatballs.”
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13.“EMT here. My most chilling experience ever involved an old woman who was heavily Christian judging by the family feel and home decor. She was struggling to breathe and her last words were, ‘I don’t feel anything. I thought this was better would be.” .’ Yes, after that I was depressed for a full month.”
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14.“My friend, who is a nurse, told me about an elderly patient she had. The woman apparently woke up late at night and told her, ‘I need to fart’ in Spanish.) and went into a brief coma and died three hours later. There was just enough time for her daughter to come in and say goodbye. After she died, the room smelled like ass from her fart for a few more days. They left the windows open over the weekend, and it concierge staff did everything they could to get rid of the smell. In the investigation, the family reported that the room smelled. The supervising nurse had to have a little meeting with everyone about keeping the rooms clean. I just think about it sometimes.”
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15.“I have witnessed several last words during my time in the ER. The wildest was when a man was brought in after a severe heart attack. Shortly before he passed out and went into cardiac arrest, he muttered, ‘The fire! The fire ! It burns!'”
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16.And finally: “I had a patient whose memory had been fading for years. It’s weird… right before a patient dies, sometimes things suddenly seem to get a lot better. Anyway, he thought I had died wife. I played along and just listened to him as he remembered his engagement, his marriage, the birth of his first child and a few other memories. At one point he said, “Oh! Irene, there you are! Sorry, you know my eyes aren’t as good as they used to be. Well, thanks for listening to an old man tell his stories. I hope someday you will have great stories to tell too. I’m coming, Irene.’ Then he passed.”
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Note: Some entries have been edited for length and/or clarity, and some are from this Reddit thread.
