8 Bizarre Last Words Patients Told Medical Professionals

#1 How to find the path ... to death?

"But I don't know how to get there" an elderly gentleman said just before 2 hours of his death.

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#2 He seemed really pissed.

"Cardiac ICU: Had a gentleman who was DNR on comfort care. He was demented and was cursing like a sailor. He seemed to have moments of clarity and would ask to see his brothers (who were both passed).

After a particularly worrisome heart rhythm, he went back into a Sinus tachycardia and look me in my eyes and said "Hey, whats your name?"

So I told him my name.

"What do you do here?"

"I'm a nurse." After this, he was quiet for some time then he said

"F**k you."

And then he died about 20 minutes later."

-Kabc

#3 Creep alert.

"Get home safe, little one." It wasn't the words as he used to say that a lot to me but the way he said that was very surreal - as if he knew he is going to die. That's creepy.

#4 Just a moment of consciousness.

"I'm a nurse and was previously working at an assisted living community on the dementia/Alzheimer's unit. My very favorite patient had been declining pretty steadily so I was checking on him very frequently. We would have long chats and joke around with each other, but in the last two weeks of his life, he stopped talking completely and didn't really acknowledge conversation directed at him at all. I finished my medication rounds for the evening and went to see him before I left. I told him I was leaving for the night and that I'd see him the following day, and he looked me in the eyes and smiled SO genuinely and said, "You look like an angel." I thought it was so sweet because he had not seemed lucid in weeks.

He died the next morning. It really messed with me."

-abbztract

#5 There was blood everywhere.

"I work in a cardiac ICU. We had a patient who had a pulmonary artery rupture (a rare, but known complication of a Swan-Ganz catheter). One minute he was joking around with us and the next bright red blood was spewing out of his mouth. His last words before he died were "why is this happening to me?" It still haunts me years later."

-Awk-Ward1

#6 There were people in the room.

"I found one of my "comfort measures only" patients standing at the side of his bed. It surprised me because he had been mostly unresponsive during my shift. I helped him back into bed and he asked me why all these people were in his room. He suddenly became quite again and I noticed he wasn't breathing. He was a DNR so there wasn't anything to do to try to bring him back. Looking back he may have been talking about me and the CNA that was helping me get him back into bed, but who knows what or who he was seeing the last minutes of his life. Still creeps me out a little when I think about it."

-MoeGentry

#7 And he knew about my personal life.

"I had this patient who had a stroke. After that he recoverd fine but did get pneumonia like 4 weeks into his recovery. The last words he said to me was at 5 in the morning.

"You took his girl and you will burn in hell for it."

I actually took a girlfriend from a friend of mine. Somehow he knew."

-Mclovinisawesome

#8 The man in black is here.

"I actually have 3 that stick out in my mind. An 83 year old woman that said "my mom's here. Are we going?" She died a few minutes later.

Another older lady said "I think I'm going to die today" we took vitals, everything seemed fine. She was stable. She had a heart attack a couple hours later. Not her last words, but the last she ever said to me.

The last one is definitely the creepiest. A nice old lady who told my CNA she wanted to wear all white. When asked why, she said "the man in black is here." She looked in the corner of the room. The CNA looked, but there was no one there. That's when I came into the room. We asked her to describe what she was seeing and she said "he's in all black, and he's got a top hat on." Then she whispered "and his eyes are red" while her eyes moved across the room to directly behind the CNA, like she was watching him move closer to us. She died later that night. But it was unexpected. That room creeped me out for a long time after that."

-Wee_Nerd