Doctors & Nurses of Reddit:

[Ricky Spanish]

"What was the creepiest last words you heard from a patient right before they died?

I know it sounds morbid but I was sent the link so of course, I had to go have a look.

This one jumped out at me and made me think of a few on here for some reason!!

Ugh. I was a hospice nurse for many years. Super gratifying job for a nurse, surprisingly. As a "regular" nurse, you are rarely offered thanks. Hospice nursing is an island unto itself. Mostly peaceful, lots of times sad, often a blessing.

This is sad, but also creepy, and I wouldn't believe it if I hadn't seen it. Had a 20-year-old kid, gang member, who was dying of primary liver cancer. Super unusual, aggressive, and terminal. He was angry at the universe. His family was there to comfort him, but he literally spits in their faces. Every ounce of energy he had left was angry and mean and ugly. His mom would beg him to lighten up and accept Jesus into his heart. He would swing at her and tell her to eff herself. The family remained beside, in hopes he would chill out at the end.

His last day, hours, moments, he was angry. The family called me into the room, and told me they thought he was going (he wasn't responding, Cheyne-Stokes breaths, eyes glossy and skin cold--the end was imminent.) His lovely mother, in her dearest attempt, whispered to him to go towards the light, to her Jesus. With his dying breath, he opened his eyes, looked at her and said: "Eff your Jesus!!!".
 
A second or two later, he slowly turned his head to the to the left and got the most horrific look on his face as if he was looking at something we couldn't see, and horrified, like in a bad movie, his face contorted, and he screamed with his last breath, eyes wide, "Oh shit, oh shit, OH NOOOOOOO!!!!", then made a guttural noise and promptly fell back into the bed and died.

Every family member was shaking and too frightened to speak, and I left the room and took two days off. I don't care if I never find out what he saw.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/4xdtdt/doctors_nurses_of_reddit_what_was_the_creepiest/

[floo]

When I was nursing for a very short period in 1968, I was with a few patients as they breathed their last, none of them was in any state to utter any last words.

[Robbie]

Oh floo, what you say is very common. Often medication eases the passage, thank goodness.
The story that Ricky posted is frightening, people store things in their subconscious and that is what came to the fore in that scenario. There are drugs that make everything gentle and dreamybut some are dreams or memories that are frightening!  All we can believe regardless of religion or faith is that the person stopped feeling so frghtened once dead. That's what is meant by "rest in peace". More unpleasant for those who witnessed the patient in the last days and the patient's relatives. The horrors will stay with them unlike the deceased for whom it will be all over.
 All makes me feel sad, sounds selfish but I hope buried horrors don;t come to fore when i am near death. Done my best to 'get them out' in lifetime but you never know. Wouldn't want that for kids or husband - or any people.

[floo]

Oh floo, what you say is very common. Often medication eases the passage, thank goodness.
The story that Ricky posted is frightening, people store things in their subconscious and that is what came to the fore in that scenario. There are drugs that make everything gentle and dreamybut some are dreams or memories that are frightening!  All we can believe regardless of religion or faith is that the person stopped feeling so frghtened once dead. That's what is meant by "rest in peace". More unpleasant for those who witnessed the patient in the last days and the patient's relatives. The horrors will stay with them unlike the deceased for whom it will be all over.
 All makes me feel sad, sounds selfish but I hope buried horrors don;t come to fore when i am near death. Done my best to 'get them out' in lifetime but you never know. Wouldn't want that for kids or husband - or any people.

I have heard that when the mind is shutting down strange illusions can sometimes occur.

[Robbie]

Yes, sometimes lovely things! We live in hope that we will not have too many horrors but, comfortingly, noone of it lasts too long.
I feel sorry for the person in the link NS posted, hope it helped to put id down in writing.

[floo]

I have never been around when any of my relatives have died. My mother's last words would almost certainly have been, "Where did I go wrong with you?"

[Nearly Sane]

Yes, sometimes lovely things! We live in hope that we will not have too many horrors but, comfortingly, noone of it lasts too long.
I feel sorry for the person in the link NS posted, hope it helped to put id down in writing.

Not one of mine. One of Ricky's!