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Many deathbed confessions are bombshells that leave aftershocks to those who hear them. For some, these final words before passing on are so haunting that they’ve been documented for the internet to see

Some of those are part of this Reddit thread asking, “Which is the most haunting deathbed confession you know of?” A few of these are revelations of illegitimate children and second families. You may also read stories of murder admissions from decades back. 

Especially if you’re in the mood for something sad or shocking, this one’s for you.

#1

My grandfather on his deathbed leaned over, and with all his remaining energy told me that he was in fact the person that let the dogs out.

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ZuriLovesYou
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1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A jokester until the end. Nice.

Rafael
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1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Now THAT'S some comedy timing!

Smitty Werbenjagermanjensen
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1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I am not going to die on my deathbed, my normal bed will do.

shankShaw deReemer
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1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sounds like something my dad would have said!

Alexia
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1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ok, I laughed at this one :))

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    #2

    30 People Reveal Deathbed Confessions They’ve Heard That They Can’t Forget When I was in hospital, the guy in the bed next to me just asked to stop taking his meds as he was ready to die. Last thing I heard him say was "There's no one waiting for me at home, so I'm going where they are."

    Wasn't really a shocking confession, just a lonely and heartbreaking one.

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    Wang Zhuang
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This post hit home with me. Sometimes, I wonder if I'll feel like that when it's my time to go

    Nicole Weymann
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Same. I'm introvert-ish and not good at making new friends (meeting new people stresses me out), so whenever someone in these "How did you get so old" interviews says that contact with young people keeps them young I'm all "oh, well, this'll suck for me if I get that far"

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    Tabitha
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Must be awful to outlive everyone you care about. He was ready to see them again.

    Angela C
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is why I hope I go first out of my siblings at least. I don't want to be the one left all alone. Maybe that's selfish but I think they'd do better without me than I would without them

    Nancy Robbins
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's what's wrong with living a long life, all of your nearest and dearest have already passed and there's no one left to go home to.

    WonderWoman
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How very sad for him. Heartbreaking.

    Bored zombie
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is the saddest thing I've ever read

    K K
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I don't have any family - am an only child, both parents died, and both of them were only children as well. I'm so terrified of being alone in this sort of situation.

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    #3

    30 People Reveal Deathbed Confessions They’ve Heard That They Can’t Forget My grandmother confessed to me that I'm adopted.

    What haunts me is that her dementia was so bad that she legitimately believed I didn't know. For context, I'm Korean, my sister's Mexican, and our parents are white. I spent the last few hours with her letting her act as if she were breaking it to me gently and promising I wouldn't be upset with my parents for not telling me (even though they had and it was kinda hard to miss).

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    Sandra Angulo
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That’s hard, but I think it was very kind of you to listen to her “confess” something you already knew. Dementia is a horrible disease, but sometimes it’s better to let them believe what they believe and not try and argue with them. Obviously there are exceptions, but in this case it was kind not to argue and allow the grandmother to believe she did something good before passing away.

    Angela C
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When my great grandma was in hospice (kidney failure) towards the end she started having, for lack of a better term, hallucinations as the toxins had built up in her bloodstream, and the nurses told us to just go along with whatever she thought she was seeing so long as she wasn't in distress. Luckily it was primarily her talking to her mother and her husband and nothing bad. But dealing with someone who has dementia or is otherwise not fully in the current reality is kind of like improv in the "yes, and" sense of it. Go along with what they're saying.

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    Mumma Cass
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You are such an amazing human allowing your grandma to tell you this though you already knew. Dementia su cks, my dad is 77 & has had dementia for 10yrs, since I found out I was pregnant. The thing that pulls my heart strings is when I take my 10yr old daughter to visit him after school, his eyes light up & she is more than happy to just sit there, listen to his life stories & helps him with his dinner.

    Elladine DesIsles
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think it's lovely that the grandmother, in that moment, saw through the visible differences to the truth of the loving family relationships that were as real as biological family. I have a good friend who is half Indian and half French, and when her French grandmother was succumbing to dementia she forgot her granddaughter, but never forgot her racism. My friend had to endure a lot of panicked moments along the lines of, "What is that brown woman doing in my house?!?". This story is much happier.

    catpanda
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's so sweet that she didn't see the differences among you all, you were just her family.

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    #4

    30 People Reveal Deathbed Confessions They’ve Heard That They Can’t Forget A girl I know had her grandma confess to poisoning her first husband because he had hit her. Fair enough.

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    Gwyn
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Women couldn't petition for divorce on the same terms that men could until 1937.

    Tabitha
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    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Turnabout is fair play. I also doubt anyone missed the old SOB very much, as Grandma apparently led a long life, and not in prison.

    Wysteria_Rose
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My granny has made claims that she hired a hit man for my grandfather. However, he was never unalived, so we're unsure if it's just her weird way of joking or if she just hired someone incompetent.

    WonderWoman
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sounds far - fight back with what you have available

    Mumma Cass
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    All I read & got from this is that he abused her

    CurlyFry
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    10 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Good for her! just maybe don't tell a child that

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    #5

    30 People Reveal Deathbed Confessions They’ve Heard That They Can’t Forget A family friend that I knew when I was a child confessed as he was dying that he had used an assumed identity of a dead friend for his entire adult life. He was a Jewish child in Germany and there was a program in the UK to accept 10k Jewish refugee children from Europe. He was slightly over the age to qualify, but a younger friend of his was murdered by the Nazis and he took the opportunity to steal the identity of this other boy. He escaped to the UK and eventually moved to North America, started a family and lived out his life. He never told anyone, including his wife who passed away long before he did, because he was afraid he would be deported back to Germany, even many decades later. As he was dying he finally told his children.

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    Heir of Durin
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So terrible to live in fear your entire life like this. Poor guy. 🙁

    Linda Riebel
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Agreed. Now let us not create nazism in this country, now that we know half the population wants it or is too stup** to see it staring them in the face.

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    Mimi M
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    'Steal'? How about 'use to stay alive'. I'll bet the child who was lost would have been glad to help save another child.

    Jay Cee
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Dubious story - the Kindertransport was very strictly controlled. Each child had to be financially sponsored and have somebody waiting for them in the UK. The chance of some random Jewish kid slipping through is very slim especially as the Nazi regime was very strict on paperwork. Upper limit was 17 years old. On the other hand, if he was Jewish and escaped the Holocaust good luck to him.

    Dragon mama
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    To be fair, he may not have been wrong about being deported

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    #6

    30 People Reveal Deathbed Confessions They’ve Heard That They Can’t Forget My wife is a CNA in a nursing home. She had a resident who was formally a delivery (OB) nurse in the 70s and 80s.

    When she was on her last few breaths, my wife was leaning in to her face to clean it, and she whispered in my wife's ear, "When I was a nurse, I switched babies around"

    I'm not sure what's worse, knowing that one child may not be your child, or that this woman could have done it MANY times.

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    Libstak
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That she would do that deliberately makes me want to kill her all over again.

    Winnie the Moo
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    HQ: Why does America have baby rooms where all the children lie together? In Holland the baby never leaves moms room (unless in case of an emergency of course).

    Kkg
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I don't know how it's now in the US, but definitely things were different in the 70' where I come from (European country).

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    M McC
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I would report it to the authorities

    Cronecast AtTheRisingMoon
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yeah, that one is disturbing enough that you would want to follow up with the nursing board, or something. I mean, YIKES.

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    Jenna Kay
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Dear heavens, what a horrid thing to do!!

    Queeqec
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What does OB stand for? I asked that question so many times, but never got an answer. Internet research doesn't work out, as it depends on the most used language in search and on the location too. Thats Austrian German in my case, located in Austria. Looking up OB brings me to the most common tampon brand and other not related stuff. So PLEASE someone enlighten me!

    T.M.P Janssen
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "Obstetrician" ist die lange Version von OB und bedeutet Geburtenhelfer, man nimmt einfach die ersten beiden Anfangsbuchstaben :D Ein OB GYN wäre also ein Geburtenhelfer UND Gynäkologe!

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    Rafael
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Maybe it is because I'm not a native speaker, but that was a very difficult text to understand.

    LilDumpling
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The dying woman used to be a nurse who helped with birthing. In the US, newborn babies have their own secure room together for medical observation, bathing, etc. The dying woman confessed to swapping the babies' identities and giving them to the wrong parents to take home.

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    Hugendubel
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    wow- what would you do with that information? find out where she worked and tell everyone or leave everyone at peace ????

    Mimi M
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is horrible. What a sociopath.

    Simeon Nevel
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Grammar pedantry ahead: formally -> formerly Seeing stuff like that in a sentence feels like my brain has stubbed its toe...

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    #7

    30 People Reveal Deathbed Confessions They’ve Heard That They Can’t Forget My wife's grandmother called her husband over to her and said something along the lines of. " I've hated you for decades. You are a racist controlling bastard." She died a few minutes later. He went down to the cafeteria and got lunch.

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    Tamra
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Too bad she couldn't have found her freedom and some happiness earlier in life.

    WonderWoman
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Laws were set up against her doing that. And these same laws are going to be returning to the USA soon enough. Women are possessions

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    Spittnimage
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sounds like husband didn't care how she felt.

    Ansaksa
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    9 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That proves very well that hating somebody is like drinking poison and hoping that this other person dies

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    Jac Carr
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm so glad she told him; I hope she passed with peace

    Judi Sherosky
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well she did get it off her chest finally.

    Chich
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When he goes, his is a grave worth pissing on.

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    #8

    30 People Reveal Deathbed Confessions They’ve Heard That They Can’t Forget My stepfather requested to see the two other families he had that nobody knew about on his deathbed. Boy was that fun.

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    Tamra
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How do people have the time or energy for that business? TWO extra families? Jeez.

    Nichole Harris
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    OMG ikr right!!! Like, yeah it's deplorable behavior, but dang I can't help but admire that kinda energy

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    Jocelyn Webster
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Woah.. good way to illicit extra family drama

    Mike F
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It would also make for some awkward holiday dinners.

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    Judi Sherosky
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Put a pillow over his face and say goodbye to a creep!

    Eugenia
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    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The father of a friend of mine had three families too, with the official one not knowing about the other two who knew of each other and knew he was married with children. My friend was one of the official children, and when he was a kid went camping with his family and was puzzled hearing his father's voice calling the names of other children, none of which was his sibling. He was very young and didn't think much of it. Long story short, the three families ended up living all together in a sort of hippy style. The last girlfriend of his father was a daughter from the second family, they were partners for many years until his death

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    #9

    30 People Reveal Deathbed Confessions They’ve Heard That They Can’t Forget There was a couple where the wife got some mental illness where she wouldn't go outside the house. This went on for years. Eventually after counseling she made a little progress and agreed to go to the drugstore one night. She went in while her husband stayed in the car. While she was in the drugstore, someone walked in, shot her in the back of the head and walked out. She died immediatly and the shooter was never caught. 


    For years everyone thought it was some insane paranormal thing, like she somehow knew that being out in public would lead to her death etc...  


    Many decades later, the husband admitted on his deathbed that he had hired someone to kill her because he could not take her mental illness anymore.

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    Libstak
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    She still may have created a self fulfilling prophecy though. If she hadn't had the paranoia he would not have been able to "not take it any more". OR, it was a convenient excuse because he was looking for a way to kill her from day dot and her sub conscious knew it? Crazy to think about either way.

    DaisyBee
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I mean, he could have just left her…

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    WonderWoman
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    was she really mentally ill or was the hubs gaslighting her?

    Farnzy
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    But...she was getting better...

    Judi Sherosky
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Uh HER mental illness? What about his?

    Tabitha
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    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sometimes you have to wonder which way is kinder and which is cruel; keeping them alive and miserable, or ending their suffering. Unfortunately, they may not be in a state of mind to make that decision themselves. For those who develop such issues later in life, I guess it’s a good idea to think about this—-like when you find out such conditions run in your family—-and set up arrangements for it before you’re unable to. I know it’s not pleasant to think about, but it does make sense.

    Adira Bennett
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well, if she had wanted to die, she could've done it herself. Instead, she was actually being brave and traveling outside her comfort zone. She didn't choose to die, she was shot in the head by someone her husband paid off because he didn't want to deal with her anymore. That's not euthanasia. That's homicide.

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    nuberiffic
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That seems like it would have been way harder to coordinate than a home invasion gone wrong or something

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    #10

    30 People Reveal Deathbed Confessions They’ve Heard That They Can’t Forget My grandpa whispered something cryptic right before he passed. He said, "The garden gnome... it was always him," and then just closed his eyes forever. It's been ten years, and I still get chills thinking about it. I mean, what garden gnome? Why him? I never even got to ask.

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    ZuriLovesYou
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I never trusted those things.

    Mike F
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ever since they began advertising travel websites I've been leery of them!

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    Kathy Brooke
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh I want to go like that! I'm going to think of something weird and cryptic for my last words.

    Okiedokie
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Grandpa was prepared to pull off a massive prank even on his death bed that is dedication to the craft.

    cerinamroth
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Maybe he watched Don't Look Now

    Anne Jones
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Did OPs grandmother have a previous boyfriend whose nickname was garden gnome?

    Jorie
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A little mystery to death is a beautiful thing. I read that for a sum of money, you could hire a man to dress in solid black, wear sunglasses, a hat and carry an umbrella to a loved one's funeral. He would stand somewhat away from the grieving family and everyone would be wondering who he was. He would silently slip in and out without uttering a word.

    Ansaksa
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    9 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Many people die into cancer. Especially with elderly you only get to know they have stage 4 cancer when they have last days to live. At this point cancet may be spread into brain and they just talk nonesense

    Extinct Animal
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    9 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Seem's pretty obvious to me he would be referring to moving a gnome around the garden to try and make the kids think it's alive/magical and create some wonder, no?

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    #11

    30 People Reveal Deathbed Confessions They’ve Heard That They Can’t Forget My grandfather revealed that my mother was not his only child. In the 1950s, when his longtime best friend was unable to impregnate his wife, my grandfather spent a week (A WEEK) in a remote cabin in the Ozarks having sex with this guy’s wife in order to give them a child. He said they had sex over 20 times. His friend even walked in on them once having sex on the kitchen counter after he drove down for the day to check on them - no phone at the cabin. Well, the week of sex worked and she got pregnant. The couple then moved out of state to start a new life as a family - to this day it is their only child and she’s not aware of her biological dad. The only communication my grandfather received from them afterward was a letter giving confirmation the child was born a healthy little girl. He never saw his friend again, but stated he often thought about that cabin in the woods.

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    Winnie the Moo
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The can make a movie out of this

    Sandra Angulo
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh there are plenty of movies like this lol

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    Rafael
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Kind of related, I remember a story where a guy had some three or four kids already, and his friend was also having issues conceiving - they had tests that said the wife was able, but the guy wan't. Since in vitro was expensive, they "borrowed" the guy that had lots of kids already and and let the sex commence. After a long time and no conception, the "donor" was tested and, surprise, was also infertile - his wife had used a "donor" as well!

    Mike F
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Now THERE'S your Hallmark movie plot! 😂😂😂

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    PeTeH
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "We've had sex 15 times, isn't that enough" "Better safe than sorry. You want a baby or not?"

    Niels AirMax
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "but stated he often thought about that cabin in the woods" I bet he did... I would too! That's just gold.😎

    WonderWoman
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Granddad went into details with his grandchild about the sexual encounters?

    Nicole Weymann
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not neccessarily. It says "revealed", not "revealed to me". Maybe gramps told his daugher (OP's mother), or his wife, or a nurse,...

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    Nicole Weymann
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The couple basically vanished from OP-gramp's life, and he never knew his other child. All obvious dirty jokes aside: I wonder if the two weeks of reproductional activity on his side and the gain of a child on the other side were worth losing a "longtime best friend", and whose idea it was (friend or wife).

    Hobby Hopper
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    People do crazy things to have a kid, so I'm not inclined to judge, but I get why they wouldn't want to stay in touch after that. I've heard variations on this story many times. What I don't get is why they thought intimacy was necessary. Why not just, you know, donate genetic material.

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    My O My
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I mean, "sex on the kitchen counter" does sound like he enjoyed it

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    #12

    My grandpa disowned my aunt just 24 hours short of kicking the bucket. He cried and you could see how bad it felt, but as he called it, a last act of justice he should have done many decades ago.

    One of my aunts outed another one of my aunt as a lesbian in the 80s, gay aunt lost her job, lost her friends, was banned from many places and pratically had to move town to rebuild her life (it was a 40k people town back then and she moved to a larger urban center).

    If that was not enough, she done a miriad of other evil deeds along the years. I've never seen my grandpa cry, but he wanted to do it himself, not trough a will, as his last deed as a parent.

    The whole speech of a dying man delievering justice is something that haunts the whole family to this day, 10 years later.

    It was heavy.

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    #13

    30 People Reveal Deathbed Confessions They’ve Heard That They Can’t Forget My great-great uncle admitted on his deathbed that he wasn't actually related to our family, he'd spent the last 40 years in the US using one of our distant relatives citizenship papers since they looked close enough and in the 1920's that was really all you needed.

    He didn't kill the real uncle or anything, the guy had just decided America wasn't for him and went home. This dude was like "Hey, since you aren't wanting to go back, can I have your papers?" and that was that.

    Not haunting at all, but my family doesn't have very many death bed confessions, so it's still technically the most haunting.

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    DaisyBee
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My godfather wasn’t biologically related to our family (most godparents in our family are relatives). He’s long passed now but I called him family (and still do) much more easily than I do my blood relatives. They suck. He was amazing.

    Cindy Brick
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I can't prove this, but am pretty sure that most godparents are NOT biologically related -- often they're dear friends who are important to the parents.

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    tameson
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This doesn't make any sense. So the original guy had family in the US but decided he didn't like it here and went home. Since he didn't need his citizenship papers he gave them to someone else who could use them. So far, so good. But then what happened? This new guy just shows up for the next family gathering and the whole family doesn't recognize that it is a different guy? Or did the first guy never make contact with the family to begin with so they just accepted this new one? But why would the new one even make contact with the first guy's family? And how could he be accepted as a great-great uncle if the first guy was a "distant relative"? Can someone make this make sense, please?

    Gwyn
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    He took the guys identity and no one in the family noticed?

    #14

    Dad died when I was twelve. Grandpa died in my twenties. Nothing too crazy. My grandpa did however look up in the corner of the room and said my dad was there to get him. Passed away 40 minutes later in his sleep. Thank god for hospice, and F**k cancer.

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    Judi Sherosky
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You are 100% right. I prayed when my Dad was failing that The Lord would send angels to grab his hands and help him over. When I got to the home he was already gone. the little nurses aide told me he sat up and reached out as though someone was grabbing his hands and then passed away with a smile. Sent chills down my back and also peace.

    Kathy L
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    F**k cancer for taking my mom; and thank god for hospice.

    Libstak
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm so sorry, glad she was cared for with dignity

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    Jac Carr
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes, f**k cancer; it will NOT take my sister

    Anne Nyheim
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Fork cancer! And knife and every single other thing in the kitchen! Including the kitchen sink! Mom died suddenly almost ten years ago. But still it is no longer than a few months away

    CurlyFry
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    10 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    agree with that statement

    #15

    30 People Reveal Deathbed Confessions They’ve Heard That They Can’t Forget My school teacher told the class abpit the time his father in law was on his deathbed. He told the family to “check the walls”. Nobody knew what he meant until they did some renovations years later and found gold ingots in the walls.

    Not really haunting, but still crazy.

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    Queeqec
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The picture shows someone sanding walls for a smooth finish. Sanding, with a sandpaper disc. Not scanning. So once again a totally unrelated picture. Thanks BP.

    kristina law
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I know this really shouldn't bother me as much as it does but it reeaalllyy bothers me when the pics don't match the posts!

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    Aussi Panda
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When my dad died we found some silver bars in an old paint tin in the shed

    Brian Droste
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Is a person allowed to own gold ingots like this nowadays? Where did they come from? There should be some type of markings on them. Need to see where they come from, make sure they weren't stolen.

    Evy Meng-Lan
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    5 days ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Hopping to higher above, when their relatives said it was the Garden Gnome..should have checked that gnome dude for gold :)

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    #16

    30 People Reveal Deathbed Confessions They’ve Heard That They Can’t Forget Wasnt really shocking just sad. They were relieved to have an excuse to die. He said he should have killed himself when he was in high school and it would have saved him from "all of this"..

    Hoping that was just the meds/pain brain talking. But not everyone has a happy life.

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    DaisyBee
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This will definitely be me. It’s like an intrinsic knowledge that this will happen to me if I don’t do it myself. I have no plans at the minute to do it myself though, because I’m just spiteful enough to want to see what b******t is next

    Eroe Infinito
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Tamra & I care about you DasiyBee. There's always a new toe to stub or fingernail to bend backward so never give up hope. :p :)

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    Tamra
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My heart truly goes out to anyone feeling pain like this.

    Kitty 🥀
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I’m afraid this will be me, too.

    Precious BS
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I started smoking in my early 20s as a slow form of suicide.

    similarly
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I like to say that smoking is suicide with the world's slowest bullet. I never realized just HOW slow that bullet would be. I've been a smoker for over 30 years, and this year decided I really want to quit. I someone who really has been there and done that, I understand the sentiment, but if I could offer advice: give up smoking. Not worth the money. My mantra now is "It won't make me stronger, braver or better able to face the day." Just know that the cigs give you nothing. Everything you need is already inside you, and even if life may seem painful, hopeless, pointless, etc., there can be help, and things can get better. Don't worry about people and places and things that you can't change. Just enjoy what you can. I hope things get better for you.

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    #17

    30 People Reveal Deathbed Confessions They’ve Heard That They Can’t Forget In the 70s there was an unsolved murder of a teenage girl in my hometown and some beloved guy from the community allegedly confessed to the murder on his death bed. It's just spooky to think that even the nicest people may be monsters.

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    DaisyBee
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ted Bundy worked as a suicide hotline operator. Was apparently very helpful & kind to those calling in during their darkest, scariest moments. He just so happened to also be a serial killer

    Bored Trash Panda
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    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Bundy used to babysit my dad's friend when she was little, she actually said he was a good babysitter to. Crazy to think about.

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    Anne Jones
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Murderers don’t look like murders otherwise they wouldn’t be able to lure victims.

    Eroe Infinito
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think the saying goes..... "It's usually the nicest people who have the worst demons."

    DC
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If they were obvious, we wouldn't need much police, eh?

    Earonn -
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The problem is that people think it's always a "monster". You can point out all the 'normal' looking murderers and rapists, people refuse to accept that such crimes are committed by normal appearing people. Probably because then they would have to accept the monster in themselves. In the end this protects the sadistic criminals, but people don't care, they want their "peace of mind", and if 6 year old Maisie gets raped because of their indifference, well, it's not them, right?

    Bookworm
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    Could this be any more vague? You don't always have to have a story to share.

    Boredest Panda
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Seemed pretty straightforward and clear to me. Girl was murdered in the 70s in OP’s hometown, guy with good rep confesses to it (allegedly) on his deathbed.

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    #18

    My sister works in a skilled nursing facility and she had a retired cop tell her about the child rapist he and other officers beat to death after they arrested him. He told her they brought him in for questioning and he “wasn’t an issue anymore after that”.

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    Libstak
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I am somehow okay with that

    Jay Cee
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And if they picked the wrong guy? It happens you know. It does happen.

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    Earonn -
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You first feel like "yeah, well done", and then you remember that Emmet Till was lynched because he was falsely accused of rape (mixed with a big dose of racism, of course).

    Leoninus Fate
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    one of my stepbrothers {not the one that lived with my step mom at the time and helped her try to kill me.... dad got around} got kicked and sentenced for beating the sh*t out of a child rapist with other cops, he got like 10 years, i was about 10 when he got out, and he almost got put away again after finding out that while he was in there and I was in the orphanage at the time {mother passed away, they didn't find my father till I was 11} that some of the workers in there did it to me and took my eye when I fought back {good news the guys that did it, died in prison about 14 years ago so that's good and it's been almost over 30 years

    P1 No-Name
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If there wasn't a written confession, with irrefutable evidence to back it up - its just vigilante justice & murder.

    Joanne Mendonza-Earle
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Geez was her uncle Hank Voight? He makes Elliott Stabler look like a choir boy.

    Hellcaste's Wife
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I find I'm okay with this...

    CurlyFry
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    10 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That should bother me, but it really doesn't

    Judi Sherosky
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I am just fine with that! Should have castrated him first

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    #19

    30 People Reveal Deathbed Confessions They’ve Heard That They Can’t Forget An electrician I apprenticed for told me about the time he was pulling cable in an attic and found a revolver under the insulation.... with five loaded cylinders and one spent casing.
    He called the cops, they were able to close a 40 year old cold case, but the perp was in a nursing home on O2 so they just let him run out the clock.

    trailspice , Jeswin Thomas Report

    Svenne O'Lotta
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I hope they charged him post mortem then, having the case officially closed can help families heal

    Sven Grammersdorf
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You can't charge a dead person with a crime. It leaves them with no opportunity to defend themself.

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    #20

    30 People Reveal Deathbed Confessions They’ve Heard That They Can’t Forget Reading these is crazy. all my grandpa said on his death bed was "can someone turn off that smell" after i opened my breakfast burrito.

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    Cathy Homan
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The best death bed confession

    Jay Cee
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    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You chose the death bed scene to eat a breakfast burrito? Ladies and Gentlemen. We have a winner #20 is truly the AH.

    Child of the Stars
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A "death bed scene" can last hours or even days. My grandpa stayed alive nearly a week after the hospice doctor gave him hours (we're pretty sure he was waiting for my uncle so he could say goodbye since my uncle wasn't able to get there as soon as the rest of us).

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    pebs
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    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I wonder if it's ok to eat a burrito in a room where a man is dying.

    Margaret Nupponen
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My mother kept saying "Turn off the TV." It wasn't on. She just didn't like my talking.

    Judi Sherosky
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Now that is funny! You ate a burrito at the side of a death bed??

    #21

    30 People Reveal Deathbed Confessions They’ve Heard That They Can’t Forget Not really this but my mom was raised in KY where all the miners and coal operators were in conflict in the 1930s and on and she told about some older man who had worked for the coal company and had presumably done some bad stuff on their behalf. Car bombs, shootings, I don’t know. As he lay dying in the hospital years later the coal co. had someone sit in his room 24 hours to be sure he did not do any deathbed confessions. Creepy as hell I always thought.

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    Diolla
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    For us non-Americans: KY = Kentucky

    Rafael
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Thanks, I was picturing something like a bacta-tank full of lube, and while this is cool, I was wondering what it had to do with the story.

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    Ron Man
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If you'd like to know more about this conflict, there's a documentary called Harlan County, USA.

    Soton_Sherpa
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why the hell were the coal company allowed to do that?

    Joe Reaves
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Because in the 19th and early 20th century that sort of thing was common. They would hire Pinkertons to basically act as a private army to break the unions. It wasn't legal per se, but if you were attacking unions (ie communism/marxism/anarchists/whatever scary buzzword you want to use) no one in authority was going to care. Workers' Rights and anything else that lowered profits made off the backs of the poor was inherently bad. Any of this looking scarily familiar?

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    Enuya
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    At least he didn't die alone...?

    Kathy L
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Good old capitalism--covering up crimes until the very end.

    #22

    30 People Reveal Deathbed Confessions They’ve Heard That They Can’t Forget One of my uncles confessed to having two other children with another woman. He thought he was going to die from COVID and I guess he felt he needed to come clean. He didn't die. That was back in 2020 and there's still a ridiculous amount of drama happening over potential inheritances and whatnot.


    EDIT: Yes, it absolutely *is* hysterical he got a second chance to live after admitting to having a second family.


    No, my uncle is not a bad person as far as I know. We never interacted much because his English is bad and my Mandarin is atrocious.

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    Libstak
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How awkward was that moment he woke up and was told "surprise, you're going live".?

    Rafael
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I read it too fast and at first got "his English is bad and my Mandalorian is atrocious" :-)

    Chich
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sounds like that guy in prison who thought he was dying and confessed to a murder. Tried to take it back when he realised he was going to live. iirc it was true and he was convicted.

    #23

    My great aunt was a spinster until late in life. She started a preschool in the 1930s in Beverly Hills, and upon retirement sold the property for a great amount of money. She met and married an older fellow, an elder in the Christian Science church. He became terminally ill but since he had no health insurance and didn’t believe in Medicare, my great aunt went out of pocket for his care. Drained her assets. Fine, her choice. On his deathbed he confessed to her that he had been sleeping with his church secretary for years. Hey, Uncle Herman: F**K YOU.

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    Multa Nocte
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yeah, f**k you, Uncle Herman!

    Jay Cee
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This one reeks of BS. I can't believe that an elder in the Church of Christ, Scientists would have ANYTHING to do with medical care. The whole ethos is about curing through prayer - which is a whole different load of BS - parents have let their children die rather than see a doctor. So, BS on this one.

    Farnzy
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    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    WOW. Just..wow. Reminds me of all the covid deniers. "I don't believe in this so called medical science!" followed by "Please medical science save me!"

    Osprey
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ah, religion, even made-up ones are full of deceiving, liars, and predators.

    Sven Horlemann
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yeah, but a Church elder, he will be forgiven, surely.

    Bookworm
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    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm not that sympathetic. She made poor financial decisions. If she'd refused to fund his care unless he had Medicare coverage and used it first she could have avoided this. Either by him having to use Medicare or by finding out a user he was sooner. 'I don't want to use the available insurance ' isn't a reason to use your money on someone else's care, no matter their relation to you.

    Gwyn
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's so sad that people confess these horrible things and leave their relatives with these devastating feelings after their deaths because of it. Selfish to the end. They have a clear conscience at the expense of someone else's well being. I'm sure you could argue they have the right to know the truth but I wonder if it's worth it.

    Judi Sherosky
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Should have put his ashes in the City dump

    #24

    30 People Reveal Deathbed Confessions They’ve Heard That They Can’t Forget A friend told me that his mother's last words was that she never cared about him and was sorry she had him.

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    ZuriLovesYou
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well, damn! Good riddance, lady!

    Earonn -
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why, because she felt as she felt and didn't lie? F**k the "a mother must love her child" myth.

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    Diolla
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What a horrible thing to say.

    WonderWoman
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well I hope his mother enjoyed the slide of death into hell

    Cara Vinson
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My husband had a similar experience. His mother is dead and I'll never forgive her for the damage she did to my husband. She drove everyone away from her to the point that it was a gardener who found her after 2 days dead.

    Spittnimage
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Hopefully, St. Peter slammed the Pearly Gates shut on her.

    Eugenia
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    She could keep it to herself her whole life, telling him on the deathbed is really gratuitous and cruel

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    #25

    30 People Reveal Deathbed Confessions They’ve Heard That They Can’t Forget My uncle, who was the oldest, admitted he passed on going to University so my other uncle and mother could.

    Only my father and me were told, and we keep it a secret still as we just don't want them to feel bad (he passed away a couple years ago, but it was very sudden and unpleasant).

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    DennyS (denzoren)
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This seems to be common in the older generation, older siblings leaving school to work so that the younger ones can.

    Papa
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My father told me that he had loaned his brother money to pay for one of the brother's sons college tuition. My father and his brother are both gone, and I'm almost certain the money was never repaid, but my cousin will never know (though he could easily afford to pay it, if anyone was left alive who knew how much it was).

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    #26

    My grandfather had pretty terrible dementia and he kept making deathbed confessions as he knew he didn’t have much time left. They were often about witnessing a murder and not telling anyone, but each time he confessed to us the details changed. It happened a couple of times a day over the course of his final week. We finally figured out that he would watch the local news and hear about these things happening then would think he had actually witnessed them.

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    Ace
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    One good reason to take any deathbed confession with a pinch of salt. Even without dementia or drügs the dying mind can do funny things. We've all had bizarre and vivid dreams at some point, imagine having one of them and not realising when you wake up...

    Jenna Kay
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My grandma had a severe infection and her mind went off the deep end for a while. She confessed to all kinds of things that were untrue, and she also thought ninjas were trying poison her and the FBI was listening to her through her bible. She does not remember any of it, thankfully, and since for some reason she believed that I was the only person who she could trust, no one else had to listen to her ravings. Some were ... really unhinged.

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    SweetCheesySpaghetti
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My grandmother did the exact same thing. And it was horrific for her, because she was riddled with guilt that she "witnessed" these things and never told anyone. At one point she even "admitted" to killing her grandfather. It was heartbreaking.

    Alex Kennedy
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    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Now compare this one with the above one where the cops beat the supposed “child rapist” to death. People are very often wrong, even about things the are “certain” about. I have actually heard a local cop, talking to high school kids, that people who are furries all eventually become rapists.

    Judi Sherosky
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A friend of mine said his granny kept saying she had lunch with all these famous people. She was watching T.V. and was so demented she thought they were there with her.

    Huddo's sister
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When his dementia got bad, my grandpa kept talking about his ancestors, but adding details to the stories that he never said before he had dementia. Things like one of them stealing a bible and having to leave the country and meeting her eventual husband in England or Ireland and him helping hide her. In reality, she was sent to Australia on an orphan ship during the famine in Ireland, and he was sent as a convict. They didn't meet until he worked off his sentence and moved form Tasmania to Victoria, where he met her.

    #27

    30 People Reveal Deathbed Confessions They’ve Heard That They Can’t Forget I have heard hospice nurses hear deathbed confessions about murdering people all the time. Very sad and disturbing.

    Johndoefun , Cedric Fauntleroy Report

    DennyS (denzoren)
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My aunt was a hospice nurse, I'm gonna ask her.

    brandyy17
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    i have a friend who is a hospice nurse and she said the same. one her worst was an old man who said he was seeing ppl he knew were dead. right before he died he told my friend the ppl he had been seeing were all the ppl he killed. he said names one after another until he passed. she still wonders if he said the whole list of names or not before he died.

    Judi Sherosky
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I did Hospice but never heard any of that. As a nurse in recovery I had a man admit he was screwing his daughter's best girlfriend. When he was returned to his room the wife, daughter and girlfriend were there .I just ducked my head and left.

    Kalikima
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Please tell me the girl was of age?

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    Linda Karlsen
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Nursing home nurse here. I had an old guy who was dying suddenly grab my hand and tell me that I had to call the police because he had killed her. Her who, I asked. He was Scottish and had an atrocious accent but went on to tell me that he had killed a woman when he was younger and he wanted me to tell the police. I reassured him that I would take action and he died shortly after. I never did call the police. I had very little info as, like I said, I found him hard to understand and I really didn't get enough to give the cops something concrete to go on. I will add my brother is a cop and an ex was a cop so I have a fair idea of what can and can't be used.

    Earonn -
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I mean, if he had given you a name of the victim, sure. Though we have very small hamlets here, and given he said "when he was young" they may have had only that one missing case in the span of years. I always think of the victim's family, they might wonder to this day what happened to their relative.

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    #28

    30 People Reveal Deathbed Confessions They’ve Heard That They Can’t Forget One of my great uncles, someone I barely knew. I could count on one hand how many times we actually crossed paths.

    But on his deathbed, he asked for me. The only thing he said to me was that he was sorry.

    I won’t pretend that his death hit me hard, but those words have stuck with me over the years. Why would he apologize to a 13-year-old who was practically a stranger? My mom says he was likely sorry for not being there for me, but I don’t know why he’d feel that way. No one ever expected him to make time for his great nephew. The few times we did meet, he was distant but kind, just like a stereotypical elderly man would be.

    Maybe it’s not as dramatic as some other people’s stories, but even now, in my twenties, I still think about it sometimes.

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    Jorge Gonzalez
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Maybe you look like another relative and he got confused?

    Lee F.
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Maybe she doesn't remember what he could be sorry for. Maybe he did something to her when she was too young to remember. Cynical, I know, just wondering though.

    Karen Krause
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Maybe there's more to the story and he didn't tell you it all.

    WubiDubi
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think several of us are thinking the same thing.

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    Svenne O'Lotta
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh damn. The uncle might have abused OP as an infant :/

    Lisa Murphy
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    10 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I’m guessing there is more to the story that you don’t know about. Perhaps he’s sorry for something else?

    Judi Sherosky
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Never know what he had been thinking before that.

    Eugenia
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What if he was OP biological father? I'd take a DNA test (unless the uncle was really old when he died)

    Wang Zhuang
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think OP should have another talk with his mother about this

    #29

    30 People Reveal Deathbed Confessions They’ve Heard That They Can’t Forget There was an ongoing land dispute in the family and my grandpa just before dying told me that the whole land is mine on his will. 8 years later i still haven’t tackled or talked about it yet.

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    Rinso The Red
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'll try to break this down: Grandfather owned land, entire family was fighting over who should get what of that property. Grandfather gave it all to grandchild, who hasn't told rest of family.

    Taibhse Sealgair
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    One would think that this would've been settled 8 years later. In the US, probate can be lengthy, but not that lengthy.

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    Tropical Tarot
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    According to Reddit the probate went pretty quick and the grandchild got the property but most of the family doesn't talk to him. Most of the family thinks and he himself thinks he should divide up the property the way the family wants to but they were so vicious about it he still hasn't brought it up 8 years later.

    tameson
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How could they not know? Wills become public records after probate (at lease in the US). If they expected to be mentioned in the will surely they would looked up the will sometime in the last 8 years. Or they could just look up the property dead and found out who owned it now.

    Matthew Savestheworld
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think OP meant that there was a major fight about the land amid the family. He got the land and he has not worked up the nerve to do anything with the land or make any decisions at all. It is just sitting there waiting for his decision

    Flo
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    ..... what?? Please try again so we can understand.

    #30

    "My grandpa murmured, 'I hid a wealth... in the...' then he simply nodded off. Still wondering if he intended for the yard or if his sense of humor drove one last swing.".

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    Anne Jones
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That’s like the joke about the green ping pong ball.

    #31

    30 People Reveal Deathbed Confessions They’ve Heard That They Can’t Forget I have a friend "B" who served a church mission in Mexico, one of his prospects "Oscar" was interested but never committed to getting baptized. Shortly before B was to transfer to another area, Oscar was very sick and dyeing. While they were visiting him one last time they were encouraging him to be baptized so he could be saved (not trying to get preachy. It just pertains to the story). Oscar kept refusing, and they finally asked him why. He confessed to them how he was a hit man most of his life, and he killed a lot of people for money. When he got older, he retired to this small village, Mexico, to live in peace. The way B told me the story Oscar may have hinted he was also in hiding.

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    M McC
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    1 year ago

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    From the time of slavery up until relatively recently millions of African Americans were murdered.

    Debby Keir
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Agreed, but how is this related to the above story?

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    #32

    Not mine

    Mother ran a nursing home growing up. From ages 5-10 I spent every weekend with residents. Because I was a kid, residents often confessed stuff they thought I wouldn’t understand. Two stick out. One funny, one not.

    Women was dying, maybe about 96. Even had her last burst of energy/life where she thought she was “better” (this is common). A Black delivery man came with some flowers. After he left she looked at me with tears in her eyes and said, “I can’t believe I’m dying without having been with a colored man.”

    Second one was while I was reading bible verses to a resident, “I’m so sorry. I didn’t mean to drop that baby in the well.”.

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    Nicole Weymann
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The 96YO basically implying she had been with one of every kind except for colored male is kinda bizarre. She sounds like she was a collector and couldn't catch 'em all.

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    My O My
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Realizition came a little late 😂

    #33

    My family is from the south and a bunch of generations ago owned slaves. One night the uncle killed both his brother and his wife and pinned it on the slave family. All of which were hanged. On his deathbed, he confessed to the murder.

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    Anne Jones
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That’s the most evil thing I’ve seen here….

    Earonn -
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And just so we found another reason why so many actually would support slavery. All the crimes they could commit and just pin on the slaves...

    #34

    30 People Reveal Deathbed Confessions They’ve Heard That They Can’t Forget Father thought he murdered a woman when he was teenage little s**t. 


    I asked for name and he told me and I looked it up on smartphone and found out and was dead but she died in September 11th attack not when my father beat the s**t out of her in the 70s.


    It was a weird sense of relief that he didn't directly murder someone but also acknowledge he was a woman abuser who thought he legitimately killed.


    It was weird but the priest gave him last rights are I confirmed to him he didn't murder anybody.

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    Huddo's sister
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Catholic blessing (? is that the right word?) for people to be absolved of their sins before death so they can get into heaven.

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    Earonn -
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So glad that to the Christian priests "beathing a woman almost to death" is A-OK. Abuse first, apologise later....

    #35

    30 People Reveal Deathbed Confessions They’ve Heard That They Can’t Forget One of my aunts confessed to my mom that she slept with my dad and gave him herpes. We all knew but she didn't know we knew.

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    qkppyrxvfx
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Anyone else notice the toes at the bottom of the picture?

    DaisyBee
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That’s the mom - how do you think she knew all along?

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    #36

    30 People Reveal Deathbed Confessions They’ve Heard That They Can’t Forget Anders Aastad from Hemne, Norway:

    On what he thought was his deathbed with smallpox he confessed to his wife that he had been having sex with their horse.

    The wife contacted the local priest to give salvation to her husband.

    Aastad recovered and the priest instead went to the local policeman with his confession. Aastad was sentenced to death and burned alive in 1723.

    Edit: It was described as a “slow and dreadful execution” in the local newspaper.

    Edit 2: the horse was also sentenced to being burned, but since it is very hard to make a horse stand still over a burning fire it was killed first and then burned.

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    Libstak
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why was the horse burned? I hate people.

    Makenzie McNeal
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Clearly it tempted the man! It must be of Satan! /s

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    Nea
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Thank god it said 1723. For a moment I was horrified (mostly for horse)!

    Kathy Brooke
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Weird beliefs about being unclean... oddly it's biblically correct.

    tameson
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I thought priests could never repeat something heard in confession.

    Angela C
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They're not supposed to, no. Maybe this guy thought that it was worth the consequences to break that confidentiality though

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    #37

    30 People Reveal Deathbed Confessions They’ve Heard That They Can’t Forget A woman confessed to her husband of almost 55 years that the 3 kids they have, out of those 2 are not from him.

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    Jay Cee
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And he responded "No problem, the other four aren't YOURS!"

    DennyS (denzoren)
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh wow, well that would be a heavy bow, especially since the kids and him would have to cope with that realization.

    Rafael
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well, they are his now, she just used one cell from a stranger (still a d**k move, thoug)

    Farnzy
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Is it just me, or is that selfish to tell someone that then? Person can do absolutely nothing with that info and dies feeling conflicted and betrayed. Seems like it was a last ditch effort for that person to "clear" their conscious with basically no repercussions.

    Niels AirMax
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So cool, that bp censors pretty much everything and puts a picture of two black kids above THAT story! Can NOT stop giggling...🤭

    #38

    30 People Reveal Deathbed Confessions They’ve Heard That They Can’t Forget Was visiting my grandmother in hospice, and her roommate was an old man. My grandmother took a nap, and he and I got to talking. He told me about how he used to lynch black folks back in the day in Alabama. I left and brought it up to the nurse and she said something along the lines of "Oh, he says things like that all the time. It's the dementia". I reported it to the AL State Bureau of Investigation, but never heard anything about it.

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    Angela C
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's because the state of Alabama would probably have given him a medal for that

    Bookworm
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Because dementia. There's no way to know what really happened and what didn't. Even if it did happen it's highly likely the details are wrong, like who the culprit was. See #28

    #39

    I’m not sure if this fits here because it wasn’t a confession although it is a bit haunting to me emotionally. Just before my grandfather passed he had lost a good percentage of his senses and speech was the one he had the most trouble with but he was still trying to communicate. Being the oldest granddaughter I was with him and tried communicating with him the most. What’s haunting is to this day I still don’t know 95% of what he was trying to say to me. The 5% I do remember was meaningful so I wish I could’ve understood the rest.

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    #40

    My mother in law had a brother who was a medical doctor. He actually sent another sister, without her consent or her knowing what was gonna happen, to get a hysterectomy (uterus removal) when she was 18 because "she shouldn't be a mother". Everybody knew.

    Fast forward 50 years my mother in law has cancer. Her brother came to visit her on her deathbed. He left went home and had a heart attack. And died. I'm 100% sure she told him to rot in hell for what he did to their sister.

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    Sara Frazer
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    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    ...we need more details, why was it deemed that this young woman "shouldn't be a mother"?? ETA of course it's NOT okay to do such drastic surgery on someone without their knowledge/consent, but heck if I could've had a hysterectomy at 18 I would have. I still want one. I'm mentally unwell and have had struggles with substances, had a couple suicide attempts. Had a child at 19. I pray all my illnesses aren't passed on to her. But I can say she's already doing WAY better than I was at her age. Sorry for the rant, but just giving an example of how sometimes such forms of birth control are just, idk, better for all humans involved

    Debby Keir
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Most likely 'eugenics' - ie, she had a mental disability/impairment (as opposed to a mental health one.)

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    #41

    30 People Reveal Deathbed Confessions They’ve Heard That They Can’t Forget Old ex gendarme in france, he was "le grêlé" notorious serial killer of the eighties. It was a few years ago.

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    Nicole Weymann
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "Death bed" is a bit of a stretch here. From what I read on Wikipedia (yes, I know...) the serial killer was already suspected to be a policeman. In 2021, nearly 25 after he last was active, 750 cops got letters, summoning them for a DNA test in five days' time. His wife reported him missing three days after getting the letter. His body was found dead from súicide the day the testing was due, in a flat he had rented. He left his "deathbed confession" in the súicide note. DNA tests later confirmed the fact.

    #42

    For decades I was told my father's first wife killed herself.

    A few days before he died, he told me he murdered her -- gunshot to the heart.

    I still have the pistol.

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    Heir of Durin
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Idk that I’d keep the gun around after that confession…

    Nicole Weymann
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That last sentence 😳 Is that supposed to be a souvenir??

    #43

    It was not me, but my former boss told me that when his father was on his deathbed, he told my boss that he had been unfaithful for the majority of his marriage. This came as a surprise to my boss. He asked my boss if he could keep that secret from his mom and sister, so they would preserve their memory of him as a loving husband/father. Not going to lie, felt kinda weird that he would share such a deep moment.

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    Nicole Weymann
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What a díck move on the father's side. As the son I might have kept my tongue to avoid any more distress for mom and sister, but that father definitely didn't deserve the slack he was given. "I neeeeed to disrupt your life by telling you what as AH I am - but don't tell the others. I want them to like me still, and not be held accountable"

    Earonn -
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This. He was too much of a coward to face the consequences of his actions in life, but probably wanted to "feel better after getting clean" when he had nothing to fear anymore. Burdening his son with it.

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    Gingerfluid
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think maybe he wanted to keep the memory, for the sake of his family and not the father. Still, something like that weighs on you. I bet he felt like he needed to tell SOMEONE

    SweetCheesySpaghetti
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    He probably needed to get it off his chest. Something like that could really weigh a person down.

    #44

    My mother confessed to killing my father moments after he passed in the hospital. Couldn’t get proof but she said she put d***s in his drink.

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    Rafael
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Dïcks? Ducks? Darks? Daves? She put more than one Dave, didn't she?

    Niels AirMax
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Must be ducks. All these feathers in the drink. What a horrible way to die!

    phantomhit
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It was dogs. They hate being squished and go berzerk.

    #45

    My MIL once told us that her husband murdered her mother. This was half a century ago. She couldn't prove it bc mil was old and senile and this was before lots of new forensics.

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    Joe D
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Probably 'her husband *was murdered *by her mother'

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    #46

    Used to work for a shady swimming pool builder, owned by a real tough New York character. When he was dying, they sent a priest for his last rights. Apparently he started confessing things. The priest then had a heart attack.

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    Anne Jones
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ah yes, a “heart attack”….

    Ace
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oooh, does it still count as his ticket to heaven if the priest wasn't able to grant absolution before he died?

    #47

    This isn’t a confession per say, but my grandad killed himself by shooting himself in the head. But he actually lived for days after, completely out of it, barely moving and making indistinguishable noises. Near the end, my mom decided to play him Bruce Springsteen. He suddenly sat halfway up, grabbed my mom’s arm and look her in the eyes for a few seconds, and then fell back. We all think that was his last moment of real consciousness, and his way to say he saw sorry.

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    Papa
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    For anyone who doesn't know, and might want to, it's "per se," not "per say."

    Mike F
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You're herding cats, just roll with it! 😂😂

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