Nurses Are Sharing The Shocking Things People Said On Their Deathbeds, And I Actually Have Chills

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“Lots from COVID stick with me. ICU nurse here. Many passed due to vaccine misinformation. I can think of patients who told me that they wanted the vaccine after they were so sick. I remember one in particular — his wife had recently passed from COVID, and he wanted to watch her funeral but had no way of watching it. He was an older man without much technological experience. I was able to pull up the live stream using my phone and let him watch. After the funeral was over, he called me in the room to tell me he was ready to pass. He was extremely sick but still conscious and wanted all oxygen and meds to be turned off. We gave him morphine and versed, and he passed in less than ten minutes.”

“I frequently flash back to all the patients that we gave iPads so they could FaceTime their family one last time before being intubated (a death sentence). Some patients would get to that point at 2 a.m., and they would call their families multiple times without anyone picking up. It still breaks my heart.

I also had a patient close to discharge tell me about dreams they had where the reaper followed them everywhere they went. While waiting for his ride to come pick him up, he went into cardiac arrest, and we never got him back.

This isn’t a confession per se, but the eeriest story I’ve ever encountered.

We had a patient in the ICU for months who was sick with liver failure, perforated bowels, CRRT…the works. He was so yellow (from the liver failure) he almost looked like he was glowing. He eventually went into cardiac arrest and passed away, so we sent him to the morgue and cleaned the room. A few hours later, we admitted an older, confused man with dementia for a fall. I was moving him over to his bed, and the first thing he asked was, ‘Why is there a yellow man standing in the corner of my room?!’ I was shaking.”

—RelaxedJalapeno