A child murderer had the most chilling vision just moments before he died.
Taking to a popular Reddit thread, nurses opened up about their 'most memorable death bed confessions'.
"Nurses of Reddit, what are some of the most memorable death bed confessions you've had a patient give?" user alyssaoftheeast wrote on the platform.
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With 1252 'serious replies only', the thread brought up a lot of harrowing stories.
One person, who worked as a nurse for six years, claimed that a year or two before they started that their floor housed a 'convicted child r****t and murderer'.
A co-worker informed the nurse 'about how the patient described his child victims'.
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The child murderer apparently said he would see his victims 'hovering outside the windows waiting for him to die so they could drag him to hell'.
"We were on the tenth floor at that time. I asked my coworker if he thought the children were hallucinations," the nurse explained.
"He's one of the smartest, most perceptive people I know.
"He said he thought there was a good chance that what that patient saw was real."
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Another nurse explained what it was like taking care of a WW2 veteran with dementia.
"He would say the number '22' over and over and the family never knew the significance of it," the nurse wrote.
"The number didn't line up with any significant events or dates that they were aware of.
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"The day before he died his mental state became incredibly clear and he started telling the staff '22 men. I killed 22 men over there'.
"Poor guy. He lived with that anguish for 50+ years."
A heartbreaking story came from a nurse who was looking after 'a woman who had multiple acute strokes in a short amount of time'.
The nurse explained: "A week before she had been independent, riding her horse every day, still teaching part time at the local school, despite being in her 80s.
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"By the time she got to me she was completely nonverbal, incontinent, and unable to feed herself.
"I had a feeling that she was neurologically intact enough to understand what was going on, so I talked to her as much as I could when I was in the room.
"Talked to her about her daughters who had called every day, her husband (who hadn't called, but I left that part out), the weather, her horses, her students who had sent a card.
"On the last day of my workweek, her daughter from out of state had finally found a flight up.
"They sat in silence and held hands for hours. Visiting hours ended right at shift change, so I walked in to give report as the daughter was saying goodbye.
"The patient then spoke what I knew were going to be her last words- 'I'll always be looking after you'. And pointed to her daughter, and then at me, and then she fell asleep.
"Two days later when I came back to work, I was informed she had passed away in the night."
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Anish Vij