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Deathbed Confessions Leave Caregivers Sick
Caregivers share deathbed confessions that left them physically ill with guilt.
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Caregivers share deathbed confessions that left them physically ill with guilt. Healthcare workers witnessed deathbed confessions that caused severe guilt, including past crimes and family trauma. Originally reported by BuzzFeed.
Deathbed Confessions
Healthcare workers witness last words that include dark secrets and past crimes.
“An older dude I was transporting in the ambulance had both feet in the grave. He admitted to shooting his wife’s first love and died not long after getting to the hospital.”
Drug Cartel Confession
A 92-year-old man admitted moving drugs for a cartel across borders for decades.
“A 92-year-old man was telling me about how he’s been moving drugs for the cartel and driving them over the border. He said he had been doing it all through his 70s and early 80s.”
Nazi Officer Confession
A German woman fled Nazi war crimes after WWII with her children.
“I worked in hospice and had a German woman (living in the US) tell me a bunch of stories about how she had to move to South America after WWII. She had five or six kids living in basically a shack and said it was really a terrible way of life for a while. After listening to her for a bit, I put together that her husband was a Nazi officer and they were fleeing so he wouldn’t get prosecuted for war crimes.”
Dementia Confession
A cop with dementia confessed to past abuse of people of color.
“I had a patient with dementia who was a cop from the '70s into the '90s, and he would sundown pretty hard. He told me a lot of terrible things he did against people of color. He used to take bribes and take advantage of women who he would pull over.”
Child Murder Confession
A man confessed to accidentally killing his best friend during a game of Russian roulette.
“A man told me that when he was 13, he and his best friend got out his daddy’s gun and were playing Russian roulette when he accidentally killed his friend.”
Lesbian Identity Confession
A woman confessed to realizing she was a lesbian in her youth and marrying a man for 60 years.
“A 90-year-old woman told me she realized in her youth that she was a lesbian. Thinking it was a sin, she married her husband and stayed with him for over 60 years.”
Infant Smothering Confession
A woman confessed to smothering her severely disabled newborn in the late 1930s.
“Had a hospice patient confess she had smothered her profoundly disabled newborn in the late 1930s. The baby had the kind of issues that would involve surgeries that simply didn’t exist back when the child was born, the esophagus didn’t attach to the stomach.”
Family Conflict Confession
A man confessed to causing his ex-wife’s suicide and regretting it.
“I was an intern at the time on a neurology rotation. A gentleman in his 50s or 60s had some paralysis and loss of sensation in his lower legs. One morning, we told him that his daughter called to ask about him. He broke into tears and said, 'She cares?' And he proceeded to tell us his children stopped talking to him years ago when, in a heated argument, he told his ex-wife (their mom) to kill herself, and she did.”
Infidelity Confession
An 80-something-year-old woman admitted cheating on her husband with five men.
“An 80-something-year-old woman confessed to cheating on her husband with five different men while she was married and didn't regret any of it.”
Child Drowning Confession
A pastor's wife confessed to drowning her two children in a tub.
“A pastor's wife confessed to me that she drowned her two kids in a tub shortly before she died on hospice.”
Sexual Misconduct Confession
A man confessed to sexual relations with his wife’s 13-year-old sister.
“I once had a very confused patient with advanced Parkinson’s who mistook me for his adult daughter. He broke down and kept apologizing for tearing the family apart. He confessed to having some kind of sexual relations with his wife’s 13-year-old sister (no timeline provided, so I don't know how old he would’ve been).”
Gambling Addiction Confession
A patient admitted hiding a gambling addiction that drained family savings.
“My aunt was an ICU nurse and once mentioned a patient who spent his final hours admitting he’d hidden a gambling addiction that drained the family savings.”
Dementia Confession
A woman confessed to sleeping with multiple men to have children.
“I had a patient with dementia who told me all about the different men she slept with to try to have another child, while her daughter looked like she wanted the earth to just open up and swallow her whole.”
Murder Confession
A woman wrote on a whiteboard that her husband killed four women.
“One lady’s movement disorder was progressing. She was weakening so much that she could hardly speak. When her friend visited, she wrote on the whiteboard given to her, 'Kyle killed four women.' Her friend said that Kyle was her husband, who has since died.”
Vaccine Refusal Confession
Three men died after refusing the COVID vaccine due to misinformation.
“Once the COVID vaccine became available in the early stages of the pandemic, many men refused it because their leaders told them to. Cut to these men, dying in the ICU and barely able to breathe, saying to themselves and to me, 'I’m so stupid. I’m so stupid. Why didn’t I get the vaccine!?' And I said plural because I actually had three different male patients in that same scenario, and they all died a terrible death.”
What to remember
Healthcare workers witnessed deathbed confessions that caused severe guilt, including past crimes and family trauma.
