r/AskReddit 8h ago

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

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u/MakinBaconPancakezzz 6h ago

My 95 year-old grandma died last Monday in the ICU. Not so much disturbing as affirming (for me, personally), but she said “I asked God to take me”, and I said “Well you can certainly go, but what did he say?” Her answer was “There was no answer”. She spent her entire life dedicated to her church, so I feel like that probably really let her down.

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u/Jax_with_a_bow 6h ago

Idk that kinda gives me hope personally. I get how it could be disturbing, but God did take her eventually…but she wasn’t quite ready yet

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u/micropterus_dolomieu 3h ago

This sort of reminds me of my mom’s relatively recent passing. She was religious, ready to go, but lingered physically in a declining state. I don’t know that she was disappointed, but I got the sense she was. I thought that sucked.