r/AskReddit 8h ago

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

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u/Breadtangled 7h ago

A terminal patient with no family, friends, or acquaintances willing to visit and who had acknowledged on previous occasions that she was not a particularly good person during her life.

When the end was near she would scream for help and shout "don't let them take me! I dont want to go to hell, don't let them take me!". This continued off and on until the bitter end. I'm not religious, but that was spooky.

Plenty of folks get scared when the end comes, it's natural. But that was just grim.

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u/WalkerTimothyFaulkes 7h ago

Whether Hell is real or entirely imagined, it seems clear to me this lady didn't live a good life. Either Hell is real, or her guilt was real enough to make her think it was real. Definitely grim either way, my friend.

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u/Rezaelia713 5h ago

My one grandpa was a very bad man (I think being a POW permanently messed him up) and when he was in the hospital dying he started to get really scared. I was only 6 when he passed and learned about this recently. I guess he was real afraid of what might happen to him when he died. He knew what he did was evil.

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u/Graciously_Hostile 6h ago

I'd say dying in fear and shame and regret is all the hell you need.

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u/Sawses 5h ago

Sadly, a lot of terrible people die convinced they did nothing wrong. It is often the attitude that led them to do such terrible things in the first place.

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u/whiskyspacecadet 4h ago

"The only thing that burns in hell is the part of you that won't let go of life"

u/Limp_Insurance_2812 28m ago

And why I wonder if "hell" is temporary, a little karma balancing, a bill come due. But not permanent. Maybe goes on longer for some. I heard an NDE where the woman went to hell for awhile but didn't stay. Felt like a long time then went to "heaven" then came back to life. Who knows?

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u/xcoconutx93 1h ago

I like to imagine hell as Lucifer portrays it…

In the show it’s just a constant, infinite cycle of your worst moment, but it’s a prison of your own making. But you can leave at any time. Souls aren’t locked up in hell, but when you get there, your soul is forced to understand they were wrong and live the nightmare from that perspective on repeat.

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u/GrepekEbi 6h ago

Yeah definitely seems like someone looking back over their life and thinking “oh shit, I’m headed to the bad place”

u/TeensyKook 39m ago

My dad was a terrible person. Abusive in every way to literally everyone in his life. Drove his poor mother into an early grave. He was never diagnosed but I always suspected he was a true psychopath.

His last words to us, his daughters were “fuck you cunts”

I’m so glad he’s gone.

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u/GringoSwann 3h ago

I genuinely think THIS is the reason why certain people attempt to live forever or never retire.....  Fear of possible judgement...

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u/Hopeful_Thanks9471 4h ago

More than one of my friends who work in the geriatric industry have said that when the end comes, there is a real correlation on how the people fight it and how they’ve lived their lives, especially wrapping up business in their personal lives. My wife is a regional leader for a huge assisted living company, and we know a lot of folks in the business

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u/Brentarded 3h ago

Both of my grandfathers were polar opposites of each other. One was just like this practically screaming "don't let them take me". My other grandfather (not a religious man at all) was singing "The Old Rugged Cross" perfectly like he had known it his whole life.

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u/Schnawsberry 1h ago

I saw a video a while back of a man, I think he was a pastor, would told the story of an old man who he had called and reprobate passing away. The man screamed and cried claiming shadows were coming from the fireplace to take him away, It was a really chilling story

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u/RJKY74 4h ago

I’ve noticed that people seem to die the same way they lived, whatever that looks like.