Recently, I asked the BuzzFeed Community members to tell us the wild or life-changing thing that they learned about their family or a family member when someone was on their deathbed! And, needless to say, people had some truly interesting stories to share!
Here are just some of the intriguing deathbed confessions people made to their family members:
1. "My paternal grandmother had stage 4 pancreatic cancer, her health got really bad really fast, and we all knew she didn’t have much time left. On one of our visits, she asked for everyone but my father [to] stay [out of] the room. When he came out, he was in tears. Turns out my grandmother revealed to him that she was told he wouldn’t be able to have kids due to a surgery he had to have when he was a kid. She never told him, but obviously, he did end up having children, hence me. Turns out my mother cheated on my father, and no one ever knew until my grandmother dropped this confession. We did a paternity test and everything. It was true."
—[anonymous]
2. "My grandmother became a widow at a relatively young age, and for most of her life, she was frugal because she had to 'scrap by' with my grandpa's Social Security. Before her death, she told my father where to look while cleaning out her house because she had 'hid a little bit of money' around. When we went to her house, there was a lot of hidden money everywhere; hidden in coat pockets, jars, under mattresses, etc. Long story short, turns out my grandpa had invested in some properties early in their marriage that she later ended up selling for a large profit — but because she grew up during the Depression, she saved every penny she could and lived well below her means."
—[anonymous]
