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<h2>While most of us imagine that our last words will be written down and remembered for generations to come, most of the time they&#39;re not the groundbreaking inspirational quotes we hoped to conjure up from the white light...</h2><p>Regardless of whether or not you believe in an after-life or the &quot;great beyond,&quot; people who are faced with their imminent death can sometimes feel the need to absolve themselves of heavy family secrets. Confessing a dark or shocking scandal to the family surrounding your deathbed can be a dramatic and poetic show, but whoever has to carry around that new burden is often faced with a dilemma. Should you tell you aunt that the person she thought was her mother all her life is actually her grandmother? Will you ever recover from knowing your great grandmother&#39;s secret Christmas cookie ingredient? How many confessions about spicy affairs or workplace romances do hospice nurses listen to every day?</p><p>So, when a recent <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/nqkh7n/people_who_have_heard_deathbed_confessions_what/">Reddit</a> user asked, &quot;People who have heard deathbed confessions, what were some interesting ones?&quot; people were ready to share the shocking, comforting, or inspiring final confessions they were able to witness.</p><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>1.</h2><blockquote> <p>My dad had Alzheimer&#39;s and ended up in a secure ward. He was blind and almost deaf. I was visiting him one day. He didn&#39;t know who I was, but he started talking about me. He said I had done better than him in life and that he was proud of me. He was a quiet man IRL and never told me that when I was growing up.</p> <p>Looking back, he did things that my dumb ass never realized were for me. Like, when he retired his colleagues asked what he&#39;d like as a present. He chose a scientific calculator (this was back in the 1970&#39;s). He had no use for it. He gave it to me for university. I thought he was just passing it on, not realizing that he&#39;d asked for it with me in mind. - LactatingWolverwine</p> </blockquote><h2>2.</h2><blockquote> <p>My grandma confessed to murder on her deathbed. Usually you&rsquo;d think it was the pain relief, but she was such an eccentric it was actually believable. We traced all her ex-husbands, partners and any other likely candidates and fortunately no one was missing or died an untimely death, but sometimes I wonder... - NotAnEarthwormYet</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>3.</h2><blockquote> <p>My grandfather who had not been a religious man throughout his life stated on the second to last day he was alive that in the prior few nights he was seeing beings in the bedroom with him. He could not discern what they were, but one in particular made him very fearful. - cap_slinger</p> </blockquote><h2>4.</h2><blockquote> <p>My grandfather admitted to me and only me that he &quot;accidentally&quot; had sex with a man - Aggravating_Fish_169</p> </blockquote><h2>5.</h2><blockquote> <p>My great grandmother lived a very long and interesting life. She was in her 20s in the great depression. She had a wild streak from those days that we don&#39;t know much about, to the point that we actually don&#39;t know our great grandfather&#39;s name. Just the husband she took later.</p> </blockquote><p> </p><blockquote> <p>Over the course of her nearly 100 year life, she had collected owls. Literally thousands of owl figurines. She had clocks, wall-hangings, potholders, lamps, stained glass art, salt shakers, and more little figurines than you could imagine, all depicting owls.</p> <p>We all wondered the importance of the owls. She never talked about them, we just all knew she loved owls.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p> </p><blockquote> <p>Well, when she was nearing death, at the age of 98 or 99, and the docs said she had days, my grandparents went and talked to her and they asked her if she had anything she wanted to share or ask before she goes.</p> <p>She thought for a moment, then said, &quot;I never understood the owls.&quot;</p> </blockquote><p> </p><blockquote> <p>It turns out, she didn&#39;t really give a sh*t about owls. Near as we could piece together sometime in the 40s or 50s perhaps, she bought either a trivet or a set of salt/pepper shakers that were owls. Then someone got her the other. Those were the oldest owls anyone could remember. But from there, someone got her an owl to match, probably a potholder or place mat. And all the sudden her kitchen was owl themed. From there, it snowballed. The owls flowed like wine, baffling her for 60 years, eventually taking over as the bulk of her personal belongings.</p> <p>The moral is: if you&#39;re not actually into something, mention it early. - Fearlessleader85</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>6.</h2><blockquote> <p>My grandparents have three daughters. Everyone always said that my mom was my grandfather&#39;s secret favorite. He never agreed.</p> <p>I heard he was on his death bed on April 6th. Went to see him on April 8th. He was scary looking and the doctor kept saying he didn&#39;t understand why he wasn&#39;t dead yet.</p> <p>April 9th everyone but my mom had the chance to come and say goodbye. She doesn&#39;t drive and my dad works 10 hours away. My grandpa kept saying her name (well, saying.. he couldn&#39;t eat or drink so it was more like a whisper).</p> <p>My mom came by on the 10th. He looked at her.. smiled.. whispered &quot;my amy&quot;</p> <p>He closed his eyes and never opened them again. - DoctorWhoTheF*ck</p> </blockquote><h2>7.</h2><blockquote> <p>My dad has a special ability to gain people&rsquo;s trust. (In a good way).</p> <p>Twice now he&rsquo;s had instances where dying people tell him things that they feel they can&rsquo;t tell their family.</p> <p>The one case was when my aunt&rsquo;s mother-in-law was dying. She explained to my dad that her husband cannot live alone and that they both agree he must find a new partner after she passes...</p> <p>He did. He remarried within a year of her passing. At the age of 81. The family was very upset about him moving on so fast. My dad had to stand up for him and reassure them that it is what his late wife wanted. - Vonnybon</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>8.</h2><blockquote> <p>My aunt watched her elderly mother fall down the stairs and confess just before she died that she wasn&#39;t her biological mother.</p> <p>She told my aunt that her oldest sister was actually her mother. The sister had gotten pregnant too young and the mom said it was hers. A common way of handling it back then. She revealed it in her very last breath. - usf_edd</p> </blockquote><h2>9.</h2><blockquote> <p>The last conversation I had with my grandfather has always stuck with me. He had Parkinson&rsquo;s, and lived on a farm outside of town. One day he looked at me and said &ldquo;I&rsquo;m getting too old to take care of Mom (my grandmother). I need you to do that for me, okay?&rdquo; His health deteriorated pretty rapidly from that point onward</p> <p>I still call my grandmother every single day, and try to get back home whenever I can to help out around the farm. - PhDShouse</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>10.</h2><blockquote> <p>A 92-year-old man confessed that he had a affair lasting 13 years - TrioPly</p> </blockquote><h2>11.</h2><blockquote> <p>I spent a lot of time with my 90-something-year-old grandfather in his final months. He was married to my grandmother for over 70 years and told me he never slept with any other woman. This was followed by him asking me what it was like to sleep with more than one person in your lifetime. - smtimesDCsmotimesRVA</p> </blockquote><h2>12.</h2><blockquote> <p>My great-grandma was in the hospital going in and out of consciousness.</p> <p>While falling out of consciousness one time she whispered &ldquo;Mama.&rdquo; And then she said &ldquo;It&rsquo;s beautiful.&rdquo;</p> <p>It still gives me goosebumps thinking about it.</p> <p>No matter if you believe in heaven/afterlife or not I think it&rsquo;s really comforting. - meggugel</p> </blockquote><h2>13.</h2><blockquote> <p>A family friend was taking care of an elderly aunt. I forget what health issues she had, but one day she got up and started putting on her slippers and just getting ready. When asked what she was doing she said &ldquo;I&rsquo;m just getting ready to see Jesus&rdquo;. She died maybe 4 hours later. - notsomerandomer</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>14.</h2><blockquote> <p>My grandpa, a Sicilian man with blessed cooking skills, told us on his deathbed that his meatballs were actually frozen meatballs from the grocery store - orangestar17</p> </blockquote><h2>15.</h2><blockquote> <p>The last two things my grandfather told me was that when he was a kid he and his mother would throw big stones on cars from a bridge and he also told me about how much better looking the lady that delivered bread to his family was compared to my grandma - Inevitable_Mango_561</p> </blockquote><h2>16.</h2><blockquote> <p>My grandmother passed away last Friday. While cleaning out her stuff, we found a notebook that had a short (one page) letter to my mom. It was sweet, saying how much she loved her and then out of nowhere it said &ldquo;your uncle Bobby is your real dad.&rdquo; Given that my mom is 53, our minds were sufficiently blown. Like what a plot twist - NickSoban</p> </blockquote><h2>17.</h2><blockquote> <p>My uncle died a year ago from cancer. A couple of months ago, my aunt was going downhill fast and admitted to the hospital. The morning of the day she died, she told her daughter, my cousin, that my uncle had appeared at the foot of her bed the night before and told her he was there to help her cross over. She also said &#39;and he looked really good, too&#39;. - kkb2021</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>18.</h2><blockquote> <p>My grandmother admitted she didn&#39;t like my haircut. - lemontreelemur</p> </blockquote><h2> </h2><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

18 people share stories of hearing someone make a deathbed confession.

While most of us imagine that our last words will be written down and remembered for generations to come, most of the time they&#39;re not the groundbreaking inspirational quotes we hoped to conjure up from the white light...Regardless of whether or not you believe in an after-life or the &quot;great beyond,&quot; people who are faced with their imminent death can sometimes feel the need to absolve themselves of heavy family secrets. Confessing a dark or shocking scandal to the family surrounding your deathbed can be a dramatic and poetic show, but whoever has to carry around that new burden is often faced with a dilemma. Should you tell you aunt that the person she thought was her mother all her life is actually her grandmother? Will you ever recover from knowing your great grandmother&#39;s secret Christmas cookie ingredient? How many confessions about spicy affairs or workplace romances do hospice nurses listen to every day?So, when a recent Reddit user asked, &quot;People who have heard deathbed confessions, what were some interesting ones?&quot; people were ready to share the shocking, comforting, or inspiring final confessions they were able to witness.1. My dad had Alzheimer&#39;s and ended up in a secure ward. He was blind and almost deaf. I was visiting him one day. He didn&#39;t know who I was, but he started talking about me. He said I had done better than him in life and that he was proud of me. He was a quiet man IRL and never told me that when I was growing up. Looking back, he did things that my dumb ass never realized were for me. Like, when he retired his colleagues asked what he&#39;d like as a present. He chose a scientific calculator (this was back in the 1970&#39;s). He had no use for it. He gave it to me for university. I thought he was just passing it on, not realizing that he&#39;d asked for it with me in mind. - LactatingWolverwine 2. My grandma confessed to murder on her deathbed. Usually you&rsquo;d think it was the pain relief, but she was such an eccentric it was actually believable. We traced all her ex-husbands, partners and any other likely candidates and fortunately no one was missing or died an untimely death, but sometimes I wonder... - NotAnEarthwormYet 3. My grandfather who had not been a religious man throughout his life stated on the second to last day he was alive that in the prior few nights he was seeing beings in the bedroom with him. He could not discern what they were, but one in particular made him very fearful. - cap_slinger 4. My grandfather admitted to me and only me that he &quot;accidentally&quot; had sex with a man - Aggravating_Fish_169 5. My great grandmother lived a very long and interesting life. She was in her 20s in the great depression. She had a wild streak from those days that we don&#39;t know much about, to the point that we actually don&#39;t know our great grandfather&#39;s name. Just the husband she took later.   Over the course of her nearly 100 year life, she had collected owls. Literally thousands of owl figurines. She had clocks, wall-hangings, potholders, lamps, stained glass art, salt shakers, and more little figurines than you could imagine, all depicting owls. We all wondered the importance of the owls. She never talked about them, we just all knew she loved owls.   Well, when she was nearing death, at the age of 98 or 99, and the docs said she had days, my grandparents went and talked to her and they asked her if she had anything she wanted to share or ask before she goes. She thought for a moment, then said, &quot;I never understood the owls.&quot;   It turns out, she didn&#39;t really give a sh*t about owls. Near as we could piece together sometime in the 40s or 50s perhaps, she bought either a trivet or a set of salt/pepper shakers that were owls. Then someone got her the other. Those were the oldest owls anyone could remember. But from there, someone got her an owl to match, probably a potholder or place mat. And all the sudden her kitchen was owl themed. From there, it snowballed. The owls flowed like wine, baffling her for 60 years, eventually taking over as the bulk of her personal belongings. The moral is: if you&#39;re not actually into something, mention it early. - Fearlessleader85 6. My grandparents have three daughters. Everyone always said that my mom was my grandfather&#39;s secret favorite. He never agreed. I heard he was on his death bed on April 6th. Went to see him on April 8th. He was scary looking and the doctor kept saying he didn&#39;t understand why he wasn&#39;t dead yet. April 9th everyone but my mom had the chance to come and say goodbye. She doesn&#39;t drive and my dad works 10 hours away. My grandpa kept saying her name (well, saying.. he couldn&#39;t eat or drink so it was more like a whisper). My mom came by on the 10th. He looked at her.. smiled.. whispered &quot;my amy&quot; He closed his eyes and never opened them again. - DoctorWhoTheF*ck 7. My dad has a special ability to gain people&rsquo;s trust. (In a good way). Twice now he&rsquo;s had instances where dying people tell him things that they feel they can&rsquo;t tell their family. The one case was when my aunt&rsquo;s mother-in-law was dying. She explained to my dad that her husband cannot live alone and that they both agree he must find a new partner after she passes... He did. He remarried within a year of her passing. At the age of 81. The family was very upset about him moving on so fast. My dad had to stand up for him and reassure them that it is what his late wife wanted. - Vonnybon 8. My aunt watched her elderly mother fall down the stairs and confess just before she died that she wasn&#39;t her biological mother. She told my aunt that her oldest sister was actually her mother. The sister had gotten pregnant too young and the mom said it was hers. A common way of handling it back then. She revealed it in her very last breath. - usf_edd 9. The last conversation I had with my grandfather has always stuck with me. He had Parkinson&rsquo;s, and lived on a farm outside of town. One day he looked at me and said &ldquo;I&rsquo;m getting too old to take care of Mom (my grandmother). I need you to do that for me, okay?&rdquo; His health deteriorated pretty rapidly from that point onward I still call my grandmother every single day, and try to get back home whenever I can to help out around the farm. - PhDShouse 10. A 92-year-old man confessed that he had a affair lasting 13 years - TrioPly 11. I spent a lot of time with my 90-something-year-old grandfather in his final months. He was married to my grandmother for over 70 years and told me he never slept with any other woman. This was followed by him asking me what it was like to sleep with more than one person in your lifetime. - smtimesDCsmotimesRVA 12. My great-grandma was in the hospital going in and out of consciousness. While falling out of consciousness one time she whispered &ldquo;Mama.&rdquo; And then she said &ldquo;It&rsquo;s beautiful.&rdquo; It still gives me goosebumps thinking about it. No matter if you believe in heaven/afterlife or not I think it&rsquo;s really comforting. - meggugel 13. A family friend was taking care of an elderly aunt. I forget what health issues she had, but one day she got up and started putting on her slippers and just getting ready. When asked what she was doing she said &ldquo;I&rsquo;m just getting ready to see Jesus&rdquo;. She died maybe 4 hours later. - notsomerandomer 14. My grandpa, a Sicilian man with blessed cooking skills, told us on his deathbed that his meatballs were actually frozen meatballs from the grocery store - orangestar17 15. The last two things my grandfather told me was that when he was a kid he and his mother would throw big stones on cars from a bridge and he also told me about how much better looking the lady that delivered bread to his family was compared to my grandma - Inevitable_Mango_561 16. My grandmother passed away last Friday. While cleaning out her stuff, we found a notebook that had a short (one page) letter to my mom. It was sweet, saying how much she loved her and then out of nowhere it said &ldquo;your uncle Bobby is your real dad.&rdquo; Given that my mom is 53, our minds were sufficiently blown. Like what a plot twist - NickSoban 17. My uncle died a year ago from cancer. A couple of months ago, my aunt was going downhill fast and admitted to the hospital. The morning of the day she died, she told her daughter, my cousin, that my uncle had appeared at the foot of her bed the night before and told her he was there to help her cross over. She also said &#39;and he looked really good, too&#39;. - kkb2021 18. My grandmother admitted she didn&#39;t like my haircut. - lemontreelemur  

While most of us imagine that our last words will be written down and remembered for generations to come, most of the time they&#39;re not the groundbreaking inspirational quotes we hoped to conjure up from the white light...  Regardless...