Doctors And Nurses Share The Creepiest Last Words They've Ever Heard
"'I wish it need not have happened in my time,' said Frodo.
'So do I,' said Gandalf, 'and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.'"—J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring.
At some point, everyone wonders what happens to us after we die, but there’s another question that is equally relevant: what actually happens to us when we die? Do we understand what’s going on as we’re going through it? What does the experience actually feel like? Do we suddenly gain new understandings of life or have epic moments of final epiphany as we shuffle off this mortal coil? Although no one can answer these questions with certainty, there is no shortage of people who think they might have an idea. People who have witnessed the final moments of another person’s life firsthand have often reported all kinds of strange things taking place that really make one wonder what really does happen to a person as they take their last breath. Courtesy of Reddit, here are just a few examples of such firsthand accounts of the most interesting, and at times creepy, last words of those who have left us for the other side.
22. Waiting Patiently
My mom was watching over my great-grandfather in the hospital. He'd been unresponsive for a day or so, when suddenly he said: "It's about damn time you got here! I've been waiting!" And then he died.
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21. Leaving On a High Note
I'm a nurse and was previously working at an assisted living community on the dementia/Alzheimer's unit. My very favorite patient had been declining pretty steadily so I was checking on him very frequently. We would have long chats and joke around with each other, but in the last two weeks of his life, he stopped talking completely and didn't really acknowledge conversation directed at him at all. I finished my medication rounds for the evening and went to see him before I left. I told him I was leaving for the night and that I'd see him the following day, and he looked me in the eyes and smiled SO genuinely and said, "You look like an angel." I thought it was so sweet because he had not seemed lucid in weeks.
He died the next morning. It really messed with me.
20. Secrets Revealed
I overheard an old lady whisper this to her old husband dying of kidney problems.
"You are going to beat this, you got away with murder, this is nothing."
19. Thoughtful to the Last Minute
Backstory: Dad had MS. He'd had it since he was 18. Diagnosed at 20, married my mom at 24, had me at 29, died 15 days short of 45. Six months before that, he was put on hospice. He and Mom were discussing funeral arrangements, and my mom jokingly said, "You know Tim, the best thing you could do would be to die on a Wednesday. That way we can have the body prepared on Thursday, the viewing on Friday, and the memorial on Saturday, so more people could come.
The morning we got the call that it was time, my mom, two sisters, and I were about five minutes too late. After we said our goodbyes, the nurse pulled my mom aside and asked if that day had any significance. It's not even 6 am yet, so Mom doesn't even know what day it IS much less if it's important. The nurse tells her it's May 21st. No... nothing is coming to mind.
The nurse told her that the previous day he kept asking what day it was and they'd tell him it was the 20th. He'd look irritated but accept it. That morning, he asked what day it was, and they said, "It's Wednesday, May 21st." He smiled, squeezed his favorite nurse's hand, and was gone almost immediately.
It was Memorial Day weekend, and we did just as he and Mom had planned. And despite many friends being out of town for the holiday, we had over 250 people show up at the memorial service, overflowing the tiny church more than it had ever been filled. To his dying day, he was trying to make things easier for our family. I miss him.
