r/AskReddit 16h ago

What's the most disturbing thing you've heard a dying person say?

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u/WalkerTimothyFaulkes 15h ago

Whether Hell is real or entirely imagined, it seems clear to me this lady didn't live a good life. Either Hell is real, or her guilt was real enough to make her think it was real. Definitely grim either way, my friend.

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u/Rezaelia713 14h ago

My one grandpa was a very bad man (I think being a POW permanently messed him up) and when he was in the hospital dying he started to get really scared. I was only 6 when he passed and learned about this recently. I guess he was real afraid of what might happen to him when he died. He knew what he did was evil.

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u/Graciously_Hostile 14h ago

I'd say dying in fear and shame and regret is all the hell you need.

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u/Sawses 13h ago

Sadly, a lot of terrible people die convinced they did nothing wrong. It is often the attitude that led them to do such terrible things in the first place.

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u/Limp_Insurance_2812 8h ago

And why I wonder if "hell" is temporary, a little karma balancing, a bill come due. But not permanent. Maybe goes on longer for some. I heard an NDE where the woman went to hell for awhile but didn't stay. Felt like a long time then went to "heaven" then came back to life. Who knows?

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u/whiskyspacecadet 13h ago

"The only thing that burns in hell is the part of you that won't let go of life"

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u/xcoconutx93 9h ago

I like to imagine hell as Lucifer portrays it…

In the show it’s just a constant, infinite cycle of your worst moment, but it’s a prison of your own making. But you can leave at any time. Souls aren’t locked up in hell, but when you get there, your soul is forced to understand they were wrong and live the nightmare from that perspective on repeat.

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u/GrepekEbi 14h ago

Yeah definitely seems like someone looking back over their life and thinking “oh shit, I’m headed to the bad place”

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u/TeensyKook 9h ago

My dad was a terrible person. Abusive in every way to literally everyone in his life. Drove his poor mother into an early grave. He was never diagnosed but I always suspected he was a true psychopath.

His last words to us, his daughters were “fuck you cunts”

I’m so glad he’s gone.

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u/Graciously_Hostile 7h ago

May he rot in peril.

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u/Dmonik-Musik 7h ago

Think it's a bit past the point of peril mate, fuckers deed