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Crisis Apparition is a term used to explain when someone is contacted by a person they were close too, usually after death. During the after math of 9/11 many people claim to have been contacted by loved ones that died that day.
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Life ends. All life does.
And entire new biological processes take place in death that we would never know about—or want to.
Except, that is, if you DO know about it. If you’ve been gifted the awareness of what exactly happens to a human body while it decomposes, you would be the bearer of a morbid fact..
And as a matter of fact, morbid facts are a lot bigger of a demographic of facts than you would really think they are.
“What morbid fact do you know?”
Here were some of those answers.
“If bodies are kept in coffins that are sealed tight enough, such as the in wall type of memorial, sometimes enough gases can build up that the body basically explodes and can spill out onto the ground.”-Mangobunny98
“If you electrocute someone while they are submerged in water, it won’t leave burn marks.”-R3dShield
“I think this is pretty well known on Reddit, but it’s a common misconception that your hair and fingernails continue to grow after you die.”
“What actually happens is your skin dries out, and recedes, which gives the appearance of nails/hair being longer than they were before death”-Antitheistic10
“In Formula 1, safety belts were not mandatory until 1972.”
“Before then, drivers believed it better to be ejected in a crash, and either die instantly from a broken neck or suffer many broken bones.”
“The alternative, they thought, was to be trapped and essentially cremated alive should the gas tanks ignite.”-[username deleted]
“A professor at my lecture today said that deer will lay on decaying corpses because they produce heat and the deer like that. Basically deer treat corpses as their personal sauna.”-4ensicmess
“An adult human body impacting on concrete does not sound organic or ‘wet’ at all, it reminded me more of a car accident than anything else.”
“Source: Last week someone committed suicide by jumping off of the building I live in, I heard the impact and saw the body when I walked out onto my terrace to see what was going on.”
“Second morbid fact, from the same source: The human brain looks far more white & pink when it gets ejected from the skull, I always thought a ‘live’ brain would be red from the blood in it but I was wrong.”-Octosphere
“In the middle ages, you could be boiled in a pot of lead for certain crimes. What crimes they were I have forgotten, but it certainly was a thing.”-necrophiliaisillegal
“Before you die, your last words could be, ‘I don’t feel so good.’”
“I was a paramedic for 15 years and heard dozens of people’s final words. The phrase I heard most often, possibly from half to three quarters of them, were some form of ‘I don’t feel so good.’”
“I’ve also heard, ‘Wait, somethings wrong,’ ‘Somethings happening,’ ‘I don’t feel right.’ ‘Wait, somethings wrong,’ ‘It’s happening,’ and ‘Oh no, Oh no.’”
“People feel the blood leaving their brain I think. Must be like a rush.”-Forbidden_Donut503
“The whole “‘f your erection last more than 4 hours, receive immediate medical’ or whatever is the reason why the Brazilian wandering spider (located in the Amazon) is so dangerous.”
“Its bite is supposed to make you have an erection for a long time and it’s pretty hard to find medical services when you’re in the Amazon.”
“What happens with boners is that blood fills up the penis and mostly stays there until the boner is gone. If it stays longer than 4 hours, the blood is deprived of oxygen.”
“It can turn into a jelly like substance with lots of clotting, so leaving it untreated could clog you up as the blood flows back. By the time you get to a doctor, they have two options.”
“One is get a 60ml syringe w/ a needle and suck out the blood (that’s the consistency of toothpaste), while also flushing it with salt water (also w/ syringe and needle) when those clots stop the needle.”
“The second option, which is usually saved for last, is to vertically insert a small blade inside the meatus/slit in the head and sharply twist it by 90°. Then just let it drain.”-marcy1010
“After the Pulse night club shooting, when the cops were investigating, you’d think it was pretty quiet in there.”
“It was actually a cacophony of ringing cell phones. So many friends and loved ones calling people they knew were there, hoping they’ll answer the phone and say they’re ok…”-Veritas3333
“There’s something called ‘Anaesthesia Awareness’ where of certain people go into surgery and they don’t give you enough anaesthesia, it will look like you’re asleep (eyes closed, not talking or moving), but the patient can still hear and feel everything that’s happening.”
“But here’s the scary part. You’re unable to move, speak or open your eyes. Unless they have a monitor to show your brain activity, you’re stuck with having to endure the pain.”-EveryNameIsStolen
“On Mt. Everest, you have the rainbow valley, the last zone to climb to reach the peak.”
“Which sounds cute but it’s really the colorful jackets of dead climbers who are frozen in time against the white harsh snow.”
“Also, when close to the peak, the oxygen levels are so low that the body is starting to die. You only have a few minutes to reach the top.”-tarantulaboi
“Also, not sure of how much of a standard practice it is, but if you donate body to a school they will possibly ship your body elsewhere.”
“I know I saw a comment about how you need to be nearby the place you donate to because they dont want to ship you to them, but they may ship you elsewhere.”
“I know at least at the local college by me, they get all their cadavers from Texas (in Illinois, and we ship ours to them) so that theres less of a chance that a student may know the person.”
“And they also cover the faces unless doing any sort of head/face things (again at least the one by me does)”-future_nurse19
“Mausoleums have not only a ventilation system to prevent smells, but the crypt slots are angled towards the back and have a drainage system for uh…liquids coming out of the caskets.”
“Airtight caskets are a problem in mausoleums because the body liquifies inside and can build up so much gas that the lid can almost explode off of the caskets, sometimes even breaking the stone slab at the entrance of the slot.”
“Can you imagine walking through a mausoleum and suddenly the slab to a slot just shatters from the inside?”-crescentcactus
Despite being bone-chilling and morbid in life, these facts could actually be useful for you some day—but hopefully for most of us, that day is very, very far away.
There are all kinds of truths in the world that are fascinating, but there are also some that are absolutely terrifying.
So much so, these facts can keep people from sleeping at night.
“What’s a terrifying fact that keeps you up at night?”
“If you’re diving with sperm whales and they make a click at full power, it could vibrate you to death, which I can only imagine would be one of the worst ways to die.”
“As unpractical as it is for me to be in that situation, not much would top being paralyzed underwater with internal hemorrhaging.” – NorthMcCormick
“About 5000 people die in their sleep every night with unknown causes.” – bubbles_teh_monkey
“That one moment I’m here and living and the next moment I could be 6 feet under or turned into ashes.” – MelanieSenpai
“Everything could just be taken away in an instant.” – boopydo1
“Living alone for a long time, I’m always worried how long my body will be discovered if I die in my sleep.” – Adonis_X
“It’s probably not helpful to hear about the guy whose kids stopped talking to him because ‘once again’ he didn’t show up for Thanksgiving.”
“So, a cop friend was called out to his house when the electricity was turned on to prep the house for foreclosure auction…”
“When the heat automatically kicked on (in August), the smell was horrendous… not from the body – it was long past the smelly point – but by the accumulated smells in the ducts from the prior winter when he passed… probably around Thanksgiving.”
“Take away? Be reliable. Call when you say you’ll call; show up when you promise to.”
“That way, when you don’t show up, people won’t just shrug their shoulders and say, ‘Well, it’s just Harold being Harold’ – instead they’ll say, ‘They alway shows up or at least call when they can’t make it! Something’s wrong. We should check on them.’” – tmccrn
“We live in a world where the rich pit us against each other as they get richer, and it’s so far gone that people would rather defend corporations that trickle out comfort (all the while reinforcing the system) than accept the necessary uprising will be uncomfortable.” – FetaMight
“The thought that if I was a multimillionaire, I would invest a lot of money into making sure it stayed that way, which is kinda scary considering how powerful money is as a resource.” – pathemar
“I’m likely going to work full time for the next 40 years with almost zero free time.” IAmAToiletDontAsk
“We live to consume.”
“Go to work, make money, spend that money to live and contribute to your economy, repeat.”
“If you’re lucky, you retire around 60. If you’re really lucky, 30. If you’re really lucky, you’re Elon Musk’s kid or some s**t.” – sloop-salad
“The dollar is worthless. The treasury is not just empty, it owes the rest of the world trillions, and the government somehow owes itself more trillions.”
“Despite this, or more probably because of this, we continue to spend more than the rest of the world combined on the deadliest military in history.”
“There will be a reckoning, and I don’t think it will be gentle or pretty.” – Plethorian
“I’m concerned that no one has mentioned climate change. This is the greatest existential threat mankind will ever be exposed to.”
“I’m regularly stunned by the existential crisis that is thinking about climate change. It usually strikes me in the shower.” – 9T3
“Life is just about finding distractions to keep yourself busy so you don’t think about the fact that there’s nothing you can do in your life to stop the Sun from exploding and wiping out the entire humanity with it.” – NotDaWaed
“I’ve reached the conclusion that it’s more important to live a life worthy of being remembered after your death, than to live a life that actually is remembered after your death. You have no control over the latter, and you won’t care.” – michaelochurch
“When I die, I will be forgotten in a few decades unless I do something amazing or horrific. It’s much easier to do something awful than it is to do something great.” – ZerenTheUnskilled
“I’m worried nobody will remember me after my generation when I die.” – rascally1980
“It would be nice to know you have had a positive impact on someone’s life. I have been lucky in my life and career to have had people I look up to.”
“Now I am getting to the age of those people I look up to, and I wonder if I had an impact on anyone in that same way.” – sadicarnot
“Folks, when it comes time to look back on your life, what you will regret are the things you did not do, not the things you did.”
“Go live your life with vigor and passion.” – ocrohnahan
“How many things I’ll never know. What will happen to humanity long after I’m dead?”
“Do you ever think about time? If it’s a property of the universe, what happens when the universe ends?”
“If the universe ends in a Big Crunch, where the expansion of the universe reversed and all matter converges in the same spot, will another Big Bang happen?”
“Will it happen exactly like the original one?”
“If that is the case, is time a loop? Has this already happened before? How many times have I thought about this and how many times have I written this comment? Has my death already happened an infinite amount of times?”
“There is no way to know the answer, and that’s something I never stop thinking about.” – whatthef**k21
Any of these facts could potentially be troublesome for someone if they were to think about it and its implications for too long.
The clear message in all of this, though, is to live life to the fullest, since tomorrow is never guaranteed.
The world is a dangerous place sometimes.
According to a study by the CDC in 2018, nearly 24.8 million doctor’s visits were the cause of some sort of accident. While the odds are still in your favor of nothing happening to you when you step outside the door, the chances of it happening at all are enough to make people a little panicked whenever they do anything.
Driving behind a service truck with a lot of dangling equipment? Walking through a grassy field filled with sprinklers which haven’t been turned on all day? Going for that big meeting with your boss?
A lot can happen.
And you never really know, do you?
Reddit user, WinstonChurchillin, wanted to know what never gets easier.
“What makes you nervous no matter how many times you do it?”
“Walking over a storm drain with my keys in my hand” ~ Groovy_Chainsaw
“Using my table saw. Even though I am a Carpenter.” ~ jakobrivers
“Handling an angle grinder makes me nervous. I have to use it frequently because of my job, but it never gets easier.” ~ CatCatRatRat
“For a couple months I had a job in a college machine shop. I was always healthily scared of those machines. You’d get trained up hearing the story of the lathe-hair girl and worse bloodcurdling tales.”
“Always follow procedure, always double-check, always know the emergency stops, and if possible always have someone within shouting distance.” ~ dishonourableaccount
“When my boss goes ‘can we just have a quick chat?’” ~ zagreus9
“Or “Come into my office when you get a chance. There’s something I’d like to discuss with you.” ~ DareWright
“Let’s break ourselves into small groups and…” ~ mayoroftheed
“And also, “Before we start, let’s go around the room and say a little bit about ourselves…” ~ ylssa26
“At meetings when they say, ‘Ok, everyone, let’s go around the room and introduce yourself’. Even worse when they require stupid things like, ‘Include your favorite food and why you like it’ or ‘Tell us why you’re here’. Uhhh…because it’s mandatory?” ~ DareWright
“The problem I have with this is I suddenly forget everything about myself.”
“Favorite food? ‘Oh god what have I eaten ever?’ Favorite movie? ‘I watch movies?’ Hobbies? ‘Is sleep a hobby, did I even sleep last night?’ Typically how it goes in my head.” ~ shermanerma
“Driving in between two semi trucks on the freeway. Bonus points if one or both is carrying a bunch of logs…”
“…For the record, I am very aware that this is something one should not do unless you have to. The only times this happens to me is if I am in one of the middle lanes on a 4 or 5 lane highway and semis come up on either side.”
“In those cases, I speed up as quick as I can to pass one or the other. Always drive defensively!” ~ princess_mediocrity
“Driving behind a truck with an overhanging load too. I’m always terrified my depth perception will fail me and I’ll ram it with my windshield” ~ SxeySteve
“My fear is driving behind a car with even a mattress attached to roof….my former boss died after a mattress came off the car in front of him….I sure miss him as he taught me to drive a stick, which was cool, though the truck was older, 1992 type truck. :)” ~ shana104
“Drive in front of a police officer when I have no reason to be nervous.” ~ DapperCam
“sit next to one at traffic lights. Do I look at them? If I don’t does it look suspicious? do I pretend like I’m bored? WHAT DO I DO” ~ Jcit878
“Walking out of a store without buying anything!” ~ KillerJupe
“I’m always paranoid that I’ll trigger the security alarm for no reason” ~ Violet_Hill
“Using a mandoline slicer.”
“Even using the safety guard I get a little queasy when I have to use it.” ~ yourtemporaryBFF
“I sliced my thumb open once because I thought I was too good for the guard. I never ever use it without the guard now and still get too nervous to cut that far down with it.” ~ TeamToaster2014
“Anything that has to do with my car. I have been scammed even over a simple oil change.”
“even if I try to be confident, it’s very clear once I start talking that I have no clue about cars. Literally had someone quote $400 to change an air filter.”
“I said no because I could not afford it…. found out later how insane that quote was. Sadly that just fueled my fear.” ~ sebastianrileyt2
“I love it when they pull out my air filter to show me how dirty it is so they can charge me $100 to change it, and I’m like oh wow yeah I’ll have to change that. Now go put it back.” ~ SirWigglesVonWoogly
“Tuning my violin.” ~ TheLettre7
“Ugh, when that E string snaps and whips you in the face…” ~ dailysunshineKO
“The E string is the worst, had one time it snapped while tuning before a concert. I was able to get a backup, but still it’s nerve racking.” ~ TheLettre7
“Calling someone on the phone. I’m a fairly outgoing person and I love talking to people, but I rely a lot on seeing a person’s face and observing their body language, which isn’t possible on the phone.”
“Voicemails are less terrible, but I still panic a little because if I mess up while leaving a message, the other person has a freaking recording of me being really awkward. I’m so thankful texting exists.” ~ smugmisswoodhouse
“Sticking my hand inside the disposal when I drop a fork In it.”
“I’ve seen people telling me to unplug the disposal, how does one do that?” ~ The_Point-Man
Most of this is in your head.
Still, it never hurts to be a little extra cautious out there and make sure the disposal is unplugged.
When we’re sick, we take medication. When we’re not looking our best, we might seek out a cosmetic surgical procedure.
And when we sit in the same position for hours, we don’t think twice about the gradual effects being sedentary can have on our bodies.
The seemingly innocuous activities we don’t think twice about being potentially harmful to our health got dissected here when Redditor ILikeIceCreamSoMuch asked:
“What is far deadlier than most people realize?”
Take notes.
Some of these examples could potentially save your life.
The things you usually don’t associate with death may surprise you.
“Being poor. You can’t afford basic health care basic dental basic decent anything and your health pays for it. Not going to the dentist can kill you. Not being able to afford medication can kill you. Not being able to afford a day off to rest when you’re feeling bad.”
“Being broke doesn’t just suck because you can’t do ‘fun stuff’ being broke sucks because you have to choose between your health and your immediate well being. And hard work alone won’t lift you out of that deadly negative cycle.” – TaysteePotayto
“Grapefruit in combination with many — MANY — prescription drugs. Basically, grapefruit can affect the way your medications work.”
“With some meds, adding grapefruit screws up the way your body metabolizes the drug, so you end up with far more than the prescribed dosage. It can also work in the opposite way with other drugs, leaving you with less than the prescribed dosage.”
“This is especially bad if you have high blood pressure or arrhythmia.”
“This article on the FDA site explains it way better.” – A-RovinIGo
“Quit drinking. Been an EMT for a while and work with a lot of the homeless population. Will gets calls for people who decided today is the day to finally quit drinking and do it cold turkey.”
“As soon as the next morning people can present with delirium tremens, severe withdrawals can induce seizures and can also lead to death. A lot of these people will think because they quit hard drugs like heroin or meth cold turkey alcohol would be the same without knowing the major effects it can have on your health.”
“Guess I should add this is only for people with alcohol dependency and not all your casual or even heavier drinkers.” – DiscountSheriff
“Vacation. Particularly in nature if you’re not used to being in nature. There’s a book called Death in Yellowstone and talks about all the weird ways people have died there.”
“Walking off cliffs, falling trees, falling into boiling water… there’s the obvious wildlife attacks but there’s plenty of less obvious ways. The thing is, people are relaxing for once on vacation and they put themselves in different environments than they’re used to. They have their guards down.” – kitkatpaddywat
A good night’s sleep can be hard to come by, especially when you’re not in the proper place for one.
“Driving while tired. All you need is that one slow part, or that one part that lulls even a little to put you out.” – ChryWolferyn
“Not sure if it’s been said, but untreated sleep apnea. You literally stop breathing, and get little quality sleep. The stress on your cardiovascular system is immense. Get tested. Period.”
“Then wear the CPAP no matter how unsexy it is. Or maybe surgery to eliminate or reduce the problem.” – mengelhart
Being sedentary while awake, however, can lead to tragic consequences.
“Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) is a well documented effect of long haul flights too. Which is why pilots who fly long haul and ultra long haul (flights lasting more than 10 hrs) wear pressure socks.”
“Passengers are advised to walk around the cabin once every few hours. With flights lasting up to 18 hours, this is a necessity. Get the blood moving. If any of these clots somehow dislodge and reach your heart, it is goodbye.” – Deepimpact1234
“Trucker here. I’ve had two blood clots in my legs from driving long distances and having my leg pressed against the corner of the seat for hours on end. One almost killed me.”
“Apparently it’s very common with truckers. You’re supposed to stop and walk around every hour and a half to keep things circulating (which almost nobody does due to time constraints).”
“The same thing happens in gaming chairs apparently – people forget to move their legs because they’re so focused on the game. You don’t need to worry so much if you’re younger, but if you’re a gamer who’s a little older, please be aware.” – tjfergusen
Beware of these below-the-torso ailments
“Penile Fracture – if this happens to you do not hesitate to get medical help. 12 weeks ago this happened to me. The tissue that fills with blood and makes the penis erect can fracture when impacted awkwardly.”
“Bend at 45 degs and a huge hematoma and swelling. I went the ED and after the poor student doctor saw it, I was rushed into hospital. I was informed if it wasn’t surgically fixed it could mean necrosis and removal!”
“The surgical procedure involved de-gloving the penis, removing the hematoma, stitching up the fractured tissue under the skin and then stitching the skin back on.”
“Still having nerve pain not mention the effect it’s had on our sex life.” – Benellibro
“A Brazilian Butt Lift (BBL) gives people a figure reminiscent of the Kardashians and is hugely popular for getting that instagram body. But a paper in the Aesthetic Surgery Journal found that 1 in 3,000 BBLs resulted in death, making it the world’s most dangerous cosmetic procedure!” – jamestxt
“Testicular torsion – don’t be embarrassed to ask for help. In ALL honesty, the embarrassment is ALL IN YOUR HEAD. Doctors & nurses REALLY don’t give a f’k, they really don’t care, and aren’t judging you one bit.”
“They have seen EVERYTHING, and then some more. But they WILL judge you if you make the foolish decision not to seek help coz of made-up embarrassment and lose your balls.”
“The pain might not be severe, but you have a few hours tops before your balls die.”
“To put some numbers to this – if you wait longer then 6 hours, permanent damage may occur. After 12 hours, there’s a 75% chance of losing the testicle.” – CircleBox2″
Just because there is potential harm in almost anything around us as we go about our daily lives doesn’t necessarily mean we should constantly live in fear.
Thankfully, the examples above could inspire further research into the things you found particularly alarming.
Which example were you most surprised by and how did it change your initial perspective about it?
The average human lives an approximate 692,040 hours on Earth, according to a recent sleep study done by Dreams mattress company. This tops out at 28,835 days, or roughly 79 years.
While it might sound like a long time, considering time is ticking away as you’re reading this, we never have as much as we think.
So if life ended tomorrow and you knew about it in advance, what would you do with your final hours?
You find out you have 1 hour to live, what do you do with your last hour on earth?
“I have allergies. I will eat everything I had to stop eating because of them.” ~ shortinha
“Panic for an hour then die” ~ Grape_Jamz
“Most realistic answer here.” ~ lemaquilleur
“Scroll Netflix or Hulu until I find something to watch while I wait it out.” ~ bitterherpes
“You’ll be dead before you find anything!” ~ di_guyo
“Have a beer and post on facebook—“if this post doesn’t get 5,000 likes in the next hour I will die.” ~ Talkaze
“Hang out on my couch with all my pets i guess. The usual” ~ induceddaftfan
“Get in my car and drive as long as I can and as fast as I can. I’m talking 5 star wanted level; I want to make national news. And right before my timer goes off, I want to drive straight off a cliff and put on the most spectacular car crash anyone’s ever seen.” ~ StaySharpp
“Load the kids into the car, drive out to my parents’ place, give them all hugs and kisses, grab one of their whiskey bottles, walk out back to the lake, sit on the pier, and spend the last 10-15 minutes drinking and enjoying the view.” ~ AZNDavyJones
“Hug all my immediate family. Make videos to send to all the people I love. I just lost someone and I’d kill for more voicemails and videos of them to replay when I miss them. I don’t wanna forget how they looked or sounded.” ~ Crimtot
“I’d have to hug my family as well, all jokes in this thread aside. My kids especially. Then for the last ten minutes I’d drive somewhere and park my car, call an ambulance. I want to give my family hugs, but I don’t want them to end up suddenly holding onto a corpse.” ~ Akhi11eus
“Record messages to my daughters for all of their major events in their life they have gotten to yet, graduations, weddings, births, that I won’t get a chance to be there for.”
“I would tell them how proud of them I am, and how they need to always look out for they mom.”
“I would tell my wife I love her, and my dogs they are the best boys/girls.” ~ An_aussie_in_ct
“Assuming I’m at home when I find out…Facetime my family and tell them I love them and talk about the good times we’ve had and tell them that they’ve made my life amazing.”
“Text my friends and let them know how much they mean to me and thank them for their friendship.”
“Hug my dogs and give them scratches. Sit on my balcony with my girl in my arms, dogs beside me, and let death take me.”
“…yeah dying in front of my fiancé would probably traumatize her…maybe I’d slip away the last 5 minutes and walk to a bench down the road so a passerby could find me.”
“Also I’d tell her it’s ok to move on, I wouldn’t want her to be alone the rest of her life” ~ adirtymedic
“Take a couple thousand dollars out of the bank. Die with that money clutched in my hand and surrounded by cryptic messages with allusions toward a much greater hidden treasure.” ~ remembernottopost
“Put GPS coordinates in a note that lead to a landmark/statue/whatever that you hate. People trying to find the statue will destroy it.” ~ BlatantConservative
“fall in a spiraling anxiety attack, trying to find out what to do for my last hour.”
“go see my parents? spend the time with my bf? eat my last meal? watch one more good show? walk in nature? say my good byes to my friends?”
“I have to make choices, what if I disappoint people because I didn’t contact them? I don’t have a will, what do I want to leave to whom? the dog won’t even understand that I’m dead!! I spent all my life studying for WHAT?”
“I’m gonna die having done nothing but that! No time to think about that, I should go play fetch with the pup… Do UberEats deliver lobster?”
“Is it gonna be good? Imagine having for last supper rubbery cold lobster. Let’s go out in a bang with champagne and sex! I don’t want to die naked though.”
“I don’t want my bf to be traumatized that way either. I’ve wasted already 5 minutes out of my last 60 minutes trying to figure it out, what if I get to do nothing because I was indecisi” ~ ChibiSailorMercury
“I lived in Maui during the ‘Ballistic Missle Inbound this is not a drill’ event. We had 15 minutes. I was frantic trying to find out if it was true.”
“Then the resolve I was gonna die hit. I went outside smoked a cigarette and looked out at the ocean. I called none of my 6 kids.”
“Nobody picks up anyway and I didn’t want it to look like I favored one over the other. I reviewed my life and I was good.”
“Luckily it was a mistake. But I’ll never forget that feeling.” ~ itsrainingkids
Maybe have that donut today?
After all, it’s not like the world is ending tomorrow, right?
People on their deathbed must want a clean slate for transitioning into the afterlife, because it is there on which truths are revealed.
Watching a loved one slowly slipping away is indisputably one of the hardest rites of passage to witness.
However, there can be room for the slightest bit of levity when they finally have something they’ve been wanting to get off their chest.
What they impart could potentially change one’s perception of them forever.
“People who have heard deathbed confessions, what were some interesting ones?”
These final moments were far from peaceful but make for great stories.
“My grandma confessed to murder on her deathbed. Usually you’d think it was the pain relief, but she was such an eccentric it was actually believable.”
“We traced all her ex-husbands, partners and any other likely candidates and fortunately no one was missing or died an untimely death, but sometimes I wonder…” – NotAnEarthwormYet
“Not my story but that of a hospice worker who spoke to my class. For those who don’t know, hospice is a method of end-of-life care that focuses on alleviating the emotional & physical pain of a dying person to ease their passing rather than combatting their imminent death.”
“One of her patients was a bed-bound woman in her 90s who was generally unresponsive but had flashes of recognition & engagement. It’s hard to gauge the level to which unresponsive patients are detached from their surroundings, so they encourage family members to keep their company in hopes of soothing the patient.”
“Now this patient was from a U.S. state that prided itself on its state university (and the university’s football team). The woman’s family had attended this university for four or five generations.”
“During her hospice care, however, her great-granddaughter was the first in their family to decide to go to a different school—the rival state’s university, in fact. Her family was supportive of her decision but often joked about her being the ‘rebel’ or ‘Judas’ or what-have-you.”
“One day, they were all sitting around the woman’s bedside, teasing the girl about her decision. Suddenly, the patient sat up, looked at her great-granddaughter, said, ‘Traitor,’ and f’king DIED.” – scatteringbones
The following confessions were bold enough to elicit a chuckle.
“My grandpa, a Sicilian man with blessed cooking skills, told us on his deathbed that his meatballs were actually frozen meatballs from the grocery store.” – orangestar17
“My grandfather admitted to me and only me that he “accidentally” had sex with a man.” – Aggravating_Fish_169
“I have an amazing one:”
“My great grandmother lived a very long and interesting life. She was in her 20s in the great depression. She had a wild streak from those days that we don’t know much about, to the point that we actually don’t know our great grandfather’s name. Just the husband she took later.”
“Over the course of her nearly 100 year life, she had collected owls. Literally thousands of owl figurines. She had clocks, wall-hangings, potholders, lamps, stained glass art, salt shakers, and more little figurines than you could imagine, all depicting owls.”
“We all wondered the importance of the owls. She never talked about them, we just all knew she loved owls.”
“Well, when she was nearing death, at the age of 98 or 99, and the docs said she had days, my grandparents went and talked to her and they asked her if she had anything she wanted to share or ask before she goes.”
“She thought for a moment, then said, ‘I never understood the owls.’”
“It turns out, she didn’t really give a sh*t about owls. Near as we could piece together sometime in the 40s or 50s perhaps, she bought either a trivet or a set of salt/pepper shakers that were owls. Then someone got her the other.”
“Those were the oldest owls anyone could remember. But from there, someone got her an owl to match, probably a potholder or place mat. And all the sudden her kitchen was owl themed. From there, it snowballed. The owls flowed like wine, baffling her for 60 years, eventually taking over as the bulk of her personal belongings.”
“The moral is: if you’re not actually into something, mention it early.”
These tender, poignant moments are sure to stay with these Redditors forever.
“My dad had Alzheimer’s and ended up in a secure ward. He was blind and almost deaf. I was visiting him one day. He didn’t know who I was, but he started talking about me.”
“He said I had done better than him in life and that he was proud of me. He was a quiet man IRL and never told me that when I was growing up.”
“Looking back, he did things that my dumb ass never realised were for me. Like, when he retired his colleagues asked what he’d like as a present. He chose a scientific calculator (this was back in the 1970’s).”
“He had no use for it. He gave it to me for university. I thought he was just passing it on, not realising that he’d asked for it with me in mind.” – LactatingWolverine
“I don’t know if this counts as a confession but it felt like one.”
“My grandparents have three daughters. Everyone always said that my mom was my grandfather’s secret favorite. He never agreed.”
“I heard he was on his death bed on April 6th. Went to see him on April 8th. He was scary looking and the doctor kept saying he didn’t understand why he wasn’t dead yet.”
“April 9th everyone but my mom had the chance to come and say goodbye. She doesn’t drive and my dad works 10 hours away. My grampa kept saying her name (well, saying.. he couldn’t eat or drink so it was more like a whisper).”
“My mom came by on the 10th. He looked at her.. smiled.. whispered ‘my amy.’”
“He closed his eyes and never opened them again.” – DoctorWhoTheF**k
“When I was in hospital, the guy in the bed next to me just asked to stop taking his meds as he was ready to die. Last thing I heard him say was ‘There’s no one waiting for me at home, so I’m going where they are.’”
“Wasn’t really a shocking confession, just a lonely and heartbreaking one.” – DanHero91
Deathbed confessions are overrated, I say.
These intriguing anecdotes are a good reminder to ask questions and share as much about yourself to anyone, regardless of their age, while they’re still around.
I would never want to regret not having known a person well or vice versa before one of us expires.
We never know how much time we have with a person we hold near and dear to our hearts.
Before Houdini died, he and his wife agreed that if Houdini found it possible to communicate after death, he would communicate the message “Rosabelle believe”, a secret code which they agreed to use. Rosabelle was their favorite song.
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It’s never easy to clean out the belongings of a person who has passed on to the other side.
And it’s REALLY not easy when you find things you didn’t want to find.
But hey, we’re all weird in our own way and we all have our secrets…so let’s try not to be too judgmental, okay?
People on AskReddit shared stories about the things they found when they cleaned out the home of a person who passed away.
Let’s take a look.
“A box labeled, “pens that don’t work”, full of pens that didn’t work.
I guess if Pop Pop ever needed a pen that didn’t work- he would know right where to find one.”
“A friend of mine (47 when he passed) had every closet in his house filled with vintage clothing because he was planning on opening a used clothing store.
He had over four thousand items that were sorted by style, size, color, etc.
Nobody had a clue he had been procuring clothing for what must’ve been years.”
“My dad d**d suddenly and my mum and I were going through his old pictures when we stumbled upon an old photo (from like the early 80s) of a woman holding a little boy smiling.
My mum and I didn’t know who they were so we called my big sister (my dad’s daughter from his first marriage) and she said “oh that’s Brian. The son dad gave up for adoption when he was a teenager.”
Turns out my dad had (maybe) gotten his girlfriend pregnant when he was 16/17 and they gave him up for adoption. In the 20 years my folks were together Dad never told Mum (or me) about Brian because he wasn’t sure if Brian was actually his in the first place.”
“We cleaned my grandpa’s house . You know what we found all over the place?
ONIONS.
Raw onions everywhere.
In the bathroom,
upstairs, next to the cleaning supplies. Their layers were poppin off, dry all over the place.No, my grandpa was not Shrek.”
“My dad and my uncle were tasked with cleaning out my great-grandma’s house when she moved into an assisted living facility (and the story of her d**th is…morbidly funny but also sad).
They found some typed recollections of a roadtrip through Scotland she and her sister took, where she got waited on in a cafe by a ‘very nice young man’, which we think was her way of saying he was gay. Then my uncle gestured to me and said ‘[MightyMeerkat97], I know you’re interested in family history, so I was thinking you’d like this!’ and handed me an old bottle.
Inside is what looks like a small grey pebble that has partially dissolved into dust. It is labelled ‘John’s Appendix. 1907’. It turns out my great-granddad was one of the first British recipients of an appendectomy when he was young, and they let him keep the appendix.”
“He had a list of 100 names, 87 of which were crossed off with red ink.
To this day, we don’t know how he was connected to them or what it meant.”
“Found my grandpa’s stash box with a setup for her**n, and an antique vibrator (like made of brass, wish I had a pic).
I mean, I knew grandpa used to party, but d**n.”
“My grandma was a child of the depression, and as such didn’t trust banks. She lived alone for years and towards the end started developing dementia. When she had to be moved for care we found ziploc baggies with thousands of dollars hidden all over the house. In the deep freeze, taped the back of furniture and underneath tables, in the backs of the toilet, etc.
Her house was sold to placate medicaid and the people who bought it were her long-term neighbors who loved her very much. They called another 5 or so times when they found even more money in the floor, the cellar, the shed. I believe there is probably still money hidden that we’ll never know about.
She spent her last years on social security, budgeting every dime and all the while was sitting on a small fortune. Thankfully medicaid didn’t know about her stash, so the family got to keep it all.”
“We found out my grandfather was a ambulance driver/medic in Bastogne during the Battle if the Bulge.
We found his dog tags, orders, pictures and everything. He had always claimed he was in the army but stayed in California.
He never talked to anyone about it, not his wife, his brothers, his children. When he passed away in 1992 two old vets showed up and talked about him saving their life.”
“Grandma had a bunch of burnt pots and pans in her closet.
She was trying to hide the fact she was going senile and didn’t know if it was okay to just throw them in the trash.”
“My Grandmother.
Growing up on a North Carolina farm, she was able to take French in high school because my great grandparents insisted on it being available in the local school.
She had a pen pal in France who was about the same age.
She had a series of letters from her pen pal, with the very last one saying “they say that the N**is are almost here”.”
“My mom and Dad and I were clearing out my grandad’s place when I found his collection of shrunken heads he had acquired when he was in the Merchant Navy in an old box under his bed.”
How about you?
Have you ever found any weird stuff while cleaning out a place after someone passed away?
Tell us your stories in the comments! Thanks!
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Maybe it’s better to leave the cleaning in these kinds of situations to people you dont’ know…you know, just in case something embarrassing or humiliating is found in their belongings.
That way, family members and friends won’t get too embarrassed and won’t potentially have their opinions of their loved ones changed too much.
But these kinds of things sure seem to happen a lot…
Have you ever found anything weird when cleaning out the home of a person who passed away?
These people did and they shared their stories on AskReddit.
“When my grandma passed away, we found some craaaaazy things including her gallstones, a chicken bone with a note that explained how it had ki**ed her dog (at LEAST 30 years ago), a box of mincemeat from the 1960’s, iguana food (she was terrified of reptiles), and an unbelievable amount of stuff all fit into a small mobile home.
We knew she was a pack rat but never to the extent that we discovered.
When my family was cleaning out the home, everyone was hiding all of the weird stuff in other peoples vehicles and bags without their knowledge. I personally stuck a terribly made stuffed squirrel (we named it “zombie squirrel”) in my parents’ breadbox to scare the hell out of them upon their return from snowbirding. It worked. I wish I could have seen it happen but hearing my mom describe it a few weeks after they returned was good enough.
Funny thing is, my family plays Christmas Bingo with cheap and funny gifts every year and these “antiques” have now ended up in the rotation, ending up in someone’s possession every year until they can pawn it off on another relative.
I currently have the mincemeat after discovering it on New Year’s Eve in a box of beer that I was gifted. It’s hard as a rock but still sealed in the original packaging, so I bought some epoxy resin and am going to cast it inside and make a trophy out of it so this insanity can continue.
We’re a weird family but fun AF.”
“My Grandma had been a school nurse but had been retired for about 10 years or so at the time of her d**th.
As we were clearing out her old office we found index cards with d**d lice on them and labeled as to which kind they were.
We were all so grossed out.”
“My mother had a coworker who was the friendliest guy ever.
He was about 70, extremely nice, loved the beach, was openly gay, but didn’t date much in his later years. He passed away from a heart attack and had no living family. They went to his home, found care for his dog, then attended the funeral a few days later.
In his will he asked several close friends and old coworkers to take what they wanted of his things as the bank would foreclose on the home. He only moved in like 3 years prior. There were a few things specifically listed to go to certain people. Everything else was up for grabs.
It was all going fine. They opened drawers in the bathroom and found weed. The group of 5 or so people giggled. Then they went into the bedroom… They opened his nightstand drawer.
Viagra. Tons of it. C**k rings, 2 dildos, anal beads, “a little metal stick thing” (was too embarrassing to tell my sister what it was for), old por**graphic Polaroids, ball gag, a few phone numbers written on paper.
Oh yeah, and more c**k rings. I think there were close to like 10. Dude was apparently a s** fanatic even at 70.
He definitely left one big last impression on those that were close to him.”
“When my best friend and her boyfriend d**d in a hydroplaning accident, I went to clear out her house since her family was out of state.
They should be grateful- I disposed of literally dozens of s** toys and a bunch of lingerie. I knew what I was going in there for, but I was still surprised by the overall size of the strap-on that was prominently displayed in their room.
Her boyfriend was a preacher’s son, so I also took all the drug paraphernalia out of their room so that his parents wouldn’t have to face harsh disillusionment with their son’s piety less than a week after his d**th.
He only smoked weed but that would have been scandalous enough to taint their memory of him.”
“Found my grandfather’s “ pocket p**sy” from I assume the 80’s or 90’s based on packaging.
What made it worse was that I was supposed to sort through/ throw out his things, so I had to discreetly alert my grandmother ( I was not touching it) while keeping my mom in the dark.
My nana just cackled, went “ well he never through anything out!” And chucked it in the bin in her bathroom.”
“Crazy aunt who was a hoarder d**d.
Her house was cluttered but relatively clean. We were clearing out the house and throwing out used stuff and keeping or giving away new unused things. She used coffee cans to store receipts so we just started tossing them right in the garbage.
I dropped one after lunch and out popped about $2,000 in cash.
Went back and opened all the cans. About $12k and some very nice gold jewelry in all. Thanks Aunt Edna.
Oh, and two walk in closets full of unused yarn that filled up my Suburban. Twice!”
“That my grandfather had a complete family (wife, 4 kids) he abandoned when he knocked up my grandmother.
All the family knew about it but he threatened d**th on anyone who told my mom. They believed him. Only found out after going through his desk.”
“Notes on how to summon demons, some sinister books about satanic rituals and a collection of weird s**t (daggers, chunks of hair, some vials with powder).
My grandparents were incredibly devout Christians, so it was a pretty creepy find. My aunt ended up throwing it all out.”
“Found 40 cans of shaving cream in my brother’s linen closet. That must have been one hell of a sale.
Oh, and over 300 video cassettes. This was back in the VCR days and he recorded every show that he watched.
He wasn’t a hoarder, but a bit eccentric.”
“When my dad d**d, my sister and I went to his apartment with my grandmother. While I was flipping through records and such, grandma came out of the bedroom with what was very clearly a pot plant.
She said she didn’t know what it was and asked if I wanted it. When I eagerly accepted, her suspicions were confirmed and she disposed of it.”
“Pictures……of my mum…….in a compromising position with two other gentlemen…….and someone else to take the picture….. 0/10, do not recommend.”
“Back in the days when I was in Seminary, I was called by a family to help catalogue her things because this elderly woman passed away (she d**d at 103ish in 2008).
Her mother was 14 when Abraham Lincoln was a**assinated. She was pretty old. She refused to go to a nursing home so family agreed she can still stay in her home with an occasional visit from a medical helper and church volunteers.
I unlocked her apartment and I swear I thought I stepped through a time machine. It was such a shock, I had to sit down for twenty minutes and let it all sink in.
EVERYTHING in her house was straight from the 40s when her and her husband first moved in. It wasn’t even in bad condition….it literally felt like I was transported back in time to 1940 because nothing looked old and worn out.
The cabinets, the flooring, hell, even the appliances and little things like salt shakers and paper towel holders were straight from 1940. The wall paint wasn’t as old as the 1940s but she repainted it the same color over and over. The kitchen was robin egg blue, bathroom same color. The living room was wood, and the bedroom was white.
I walked though the entire apartment and everything was surreal. In the living room, she had a living room set from 1940 too. She only had two things in her living not from 1940. A 1850 Victorian piano and a 1970 Cabinet tv. Even her paintings on the wall was straight from the 40s.
The only other thing that was not from the 40s was her mattress. That’s it. Even her phone was a 1940 phone with her old phone number on it….”Ellicott City 4592”
She still had family albums on her nightstand (which I assumed she looked at all the time). It was pretty sobering because when I really thought about it, EVERYONE she knew in the prime of her life was d**d. All her friends, her husband, her brothers and sisters.
Everyone but her family 3 generations younger (she had no children). I flipped through the album looking at these pictures. Her husband served in World War 1 and assisted in World War 2. He d**d in the 60s. She even had an old church directory from the early 80s where she looked like a senior citizen….and she managed to live 25 years beyond that.
The landlord didn’t want to touch the interior at all, joking with me saying her entire apartment should be in a museum but the Complex Corporate owners ordered everything stripped down and updated to conform with the rest of the complex.
I don’t know if anyone here ever watched “Somewhere in Time” with Christopher Reeve but those were the vibes I was getting the entire time I was in there. Another interesting thing…all of her pictures that were set up on the walls and tables were of her and her husband from 60-70 years ago…like a couple of young newlyweds lived there and decided to make all their pics black and white and went with the retro vibe. Her more “current” pics were all stashed away in shoe boxes under the bed.”
“My husband’s first wife d**d of cancer a few years before we started dating.
When she d**d, he didn’t have the time or energy to deal with alot of her things so he basically just packed everything up into boxes and stuck them in the basement.
Years and years later, we were engaged and about to move so we decided to go through the boxes together.
We knew she was big into snow boarding, but we didn’t know how much until then. We found various pictures of her out on the slopes with Jake Burton (founder of Burton Snowboards), Mike Olson (founder of Lib Technologies which produces Roxy Snowboards and a few other brands) and David Kemper (founder of Kemper Snowboards).
Apparently she was tight with the pioneers of snowboarding.”
Have you ever found any weird items when you cleaned out a person’s house after they passed?
Tell us your stories in the comments.
Thanks in advance!
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