While we often hear that passing away peacefully in one's sleep at a ripe old age is the ideal way to go, the reality can be starkly different. It's led one nurse to expose some startling last-minute confessions she's witnessed from patients on their deathbeds.
In an unexpected twist, one such confession took place moments before the patient, went on to make a remarkable recovery and live on for an additional two years. Joining a Reddit discussion entitled 'What are some of the most memorable death bed confessions you've had a patient give?', the nurse detailed her experience caring for a 90 year old gentleman.
The man was poised to embrace his final slumber, content with a life seemingly well-lived, and eager to rectify past wrongs. She relayed: "I had a client confess to his wife and children that while he was away on business, he obtained another family.".
Astonishingly, rather than passing away, he recovered remarkably, continued to live for another two years, and, as the nurse divulged: "Wife and children kind of cast him off. He thought he was dying immediately of cancer, they were multimillionaires, he tried to spend as much as he could out of spite so his children wouldn't inherit any of it.".
Meanwhile, another patient left his expression of acceptance for his son until his dying breath, as a nurse recalled: "'The only thing I regret in life is not telling my baby boy (who I found out was 20 at the time) that I accept him'.". One individual shared: "It didn't hit hard until she was told that his son was a transgender male and it chocked her up a lot and even chocked me up a bit, sadly he died before he could tell him a few hours later (the man was roughly 50 and had terminal cancer).".
