Doctors spoke about 16 cases before the death of patients (10 photos)

In their work, doctors often encounter death and see the last minutes of their patients’ lives. And sometimes in their last moments patients say and do strange and even mystical things. Doctors from the Reddit forum shared various cases before the death of their patients. Let's look at the most emotional ones.





"When I was a student working as a nurse in a hospital, I was caring for a woman who had end-stage renal failure. I was talking to her while I was helping her apply lotion when she suddenly stopped, looked over my shoulder and said, 'Bill is here.' I have to go." She suddenly stopped breathing. Then I found out that Bill was her late husband."



"My grandmother admitted to committing murder before she died. She was such an eccentric woman that it was truly believable. We never figured out who she killed and tracked down all her ex-husbands and other candidates, but everyone was alive and no one went missing. However, I sometimes think about it..."





“When I worked as an emergency doctor, we arrived at a call where a man was already dead. He was on vacation with his wife and two adult children. According to his family, that morning he said: “Today I’m going to die.” lost consciousness, but came to his senses again and said: “I told you that I would die today,” but alas, he passed out again and died. His son said in tears: “Yes, this is our dad... He was always right.”



“I am a paramedic of the highest category. One day we came to a 29-year-old guy who was sick with Covid. A week earlier he was already in the emergency department, but this time it was too late. I started giving him artificial respiration, but he was fading away before our eyes. In the third and last attempt to bring him back to life, he woke up and said: “Two worlds await us: one is beautiful, the second is on fire.”

"Cared for a World War II veteran suffering from dementia. He kept repeating the number '22', but his family did not understand its meaning. The day before his death, his mental state improved. He told hospital staff: '22 people... I killed 22 people "The man lived with this pain for 50 years after the war."



"I once had a 90-year-old patient. He admitted that he had been a member of the Ku Klux Klan in his youth, and how ashamed he was of it. The wounds of the past literally haunted him. In the last days before his death, he asked one of the black nurses whether she forgave him. He died a couple of days later."

"Unfortunately, during my time working in the hospital, I learned that many people, before they die, regret how rigid religious/political dogmas affected their families. Life is short. Accept people - especially those you love - for who they are there, and not as you would like them to be. This is the main lesson for me."



"I worked as a palliative care nurse. We had a 28-year-old girl dying of cancer. She moved from Canada to the US to be with her boyfriend - and he left her a year after moving. We did not expect her condition will get worse so quickly. I remember holding her hand as she died alone, without family and friends. But right before she died, she cried and said how sorry she was that she left Canada and never saw her family. reminded me of how important it is to keep in touch and be with loved ones more often.."



“We once had an elderly patient. One day he was telling his daughter about her stepmother, with whom he lived for several years. It turned out that immediately after her death he went to a nursing home.. The night before his death, he unexpectedly told me: “I everything had to be finished. We should have drowned her and burned the house."

“I worked in a hospice and often organized fundraising events, as well as the annual Memorial Candlelight Walk. On the morning of the Memorial Walk, one hospice patient felt that she was living her last hours. She told the family that she would “lead the walk today.” She died later that day."



“One of my patients had to have a fairly minor operation. Before going under anesthesia, he said: “I’m going to die. I know I'm going to die soon." I took his hand and told him everything would be fine. He passed away shortly after the operation."

“My grandfather, a Sicilian with culinary talents, confessed to us on his deathbed that he actually used frozen meatballs from the store to make his ‘signature’ meatballs.”



“And I worked in an ambulance. There was one elderly patient, as I understood, a staunch believer. She had difficulty breathing, and her last words were: “I don’t feel anything. I thought this would be nicer."

"One patient, an elderly woman, called me one night and asked me in Spanish if she could fart. She did, and then fell into a short coma and died three hours later. I can't get the story out of my head."



“During my time working in the emergency department, I witnessed several deaths. The strangest one was when a man was brought in after a severe heart attack. Shortly before losing consciousness and cardiac arrest, he began to mutter: “Fire! Fire! I'm hot!"

“I had a patient whose memory was disappearing. Before he died, he suddenly felt better. He told me about his late wife, his engagement, his wedding, the birth of his first child.. At some point he said: “Oh, Irene, here you are.” ! Sorry, I can't see as well as I used to. Well, thanks for listening to the old man tell his stories. I hope you too have some wonderful stories to tell one day. I'm coming, Irene." Then he died.."