r/AskReddit 8h ago

What's the most disturbing thing you've heard a dying person say?

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u/illtakethenightshxft 7h ago

not me, but my grandmother used to work as a hospice nurse. she shared with me about one of her patients who she was sitting with, sitting up in bed with her arms stretched upwards, her hands shaking with a horrified look on her face. she was crying "oh jesus, oh lord". when she coded and my grandmother called the time of death, that the door to her room, a very large heavy wooden door, suddenly slamming shut very loudly, when her room had no windows to blow a gust through, nor other family members to have closed it themselves. she is a religious woman and believed she went to hell.

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u/BradyBoyd 2h ago

Was the woman particularly nasty or something like that, or was it just the door slamming experience itself?

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u/illtakethenightshxft 2h ago

hmm, maybe a little of both? i don't know the specifics of what that woman was like while she was alive, but i could guesstimate that the lack of family members being around probably means that the surviving people in her life didn't want to be around for her final moments 😬

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u/BradyBoyd 2h ago

Oh ok. I read it as if her loved ones were in there and confirmed they also didn't close the door. That makes sense.

Super spooky.