Author: Cori Anne Weber / Source: did you know?
The Facebook comments we received on our original last words post were so incredibly moving that we just had to make another article to share your stories.
So we did.
If you haven’t figured it out by now, this is that article.
#1.
My ornery Grandmother’s last words to her daughter, my aunt…
She beckoned her closer, and my aunt leaned in to hear her…
Then she said:
“Mary, you look fat as a house.
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#2.
My previous wife died of cancer in 1997.
She was on high doses of morphine to control the pain and morphine causes hallucinations, so I ignored much of what she said she saw while lying in her bed.
The day before she died, she was in a rare, lucid state when she said to me, “Who is this old man standing at the foot of my bed?”
I blew it off as another hallucination. She then repeated her question.
I then asked her, “Well, who does he look like to you?”
She described the old man as having white hair and wearing a light blue shirt. She then said he was smiling at her.
I turned to look at her and asked, “Well, is he here for you?”
She then paused as if she were listening to him speak, then turned to me and said, “No. He said he’s here for you.”
My eyes welled up with tears when I realized the old man was my grandfather, who always wore light blue shirts. We were very close, but he died in 1980 when I was 13.
Later that night, she turned and said goodbye to me, saying she’d be gone before I saw her again.
That was disturbing, but I got some much-needed sleep that night.
I heard her mother talking with her in the next room when I awakened, so I figured her prediction was wrong and that I’d go in to be with her after brushing my teeth.
However, she passed in those few minutes I took to get ready.
She said to her mom, “Tell Darrin that John was here to see him again.”
John was my grandfather’s first name.
We were only married two years, and I had never once spoken of my grandfather to my wife.
Not once.
#3.
My brother was dying of cancer, and I was heartbroken.
I was awakened by my mother one morning, (she had been dead for many years), saying to me, “Don’t worry. I’m here.”
The phone immediately rang and my sister-in-law told me my brother had just died.
He and our Mom were very close.
#4.
My grandmother was dying at home.
My mother was a young woman and was sitting by her bed when she said, “Oh, isn’t that beautiful music, Frannie?”
My mother (Fran) said, “I don’t hear any music, Mom.”
Grandma said, “Oh, it is so beautiful.”
She died shortly after that.
I think she heard the heavenly choir welcoming her home.
#5.
My mom was in the last hours of her life. I told her I was going to go and get my dad (2 miles away), and she looked up at the corner of the ceiling and said, “Go away; not yet.”
An hour later her 2 grandchildren were coming an hour and a half away. I told her to hang on.
She was getting weaker and looked in the corner and mouthed, “Go away.”
They came; she squeezed their hands, then died 15 minutes later.
#6.
My uncle was having stomach issues. The doctors said he had a tumor. Come to find out it was cancer, when they went in to take it out, and it was everywhere.
They said there was nothing they could do and told our family he had 6 months.
When he came-to he said, “I have 10 days.”
His sisters happened to be in from out of state and went to visit him in the hospital. While there, his step daughter had a baby.
Since it was at the same hospital, they got special permission to bring her down, so he could see his granddaughter.
At this point he was real bad and was unable to move or talk.
He looked at my mom with a tear in his eye, and she told him, “It is okay. We love you. Go ahead.”
He squeezed her hand, closed his eyes, and passed away.
It was 10 days after the surgery, just like he said it would be.
My mother was a strong-willed woman who lived alone in her home, until she had a heart attack.
The damage was severe, and she was on a ventilator. She never wanted that, and when I came in the ICU, she pointed at me and at the machine, and I knew she wanted off.
I had a moment of weakness and begged her to try, because I knew if the machine was removed, she would die. She shook her head and repeated her motions of before.
The staff removed the vent, and she was moved to a regular room and placed on hospice. The doctors said she would die within 6 hours, but she wanted to see her grandson, who was in the navy.
After he arrived, she slipped into a semi-coma. She would rouse up and look at the ceiling and motion to the ceiling and say, “Come on, come on…”
My sisters and brother and I took turns staying with her all night for 3 nights. When I arrived on Sunday morning for my turn, I whispered in her ear, “It’s OK, Mom. We are ready. You can go.”
She immediately stopped breathing and was gone.
What a peaceful death of a wonderful woman who was very much loved. This was in 2002.
I miss her and dad more every day.
I know they will come for me when it is my time. I find great comfort in that.
20 years ago we visited my husband’s grandmother who had serious lung cancer.
She was mostly quiet until, clear as a bell, she said, “I can’t go. I won’t be able to see Jenny’s baby girl.”
I thought it was the morphine for sure.
My name was Jenny, but I wasn’t pregnant.
We smiled and hugged her anyway, thinking she was hallucinating.
The night of her funeral, I found out I was one week pregnant.
9 months later with no ultrasound, I had a baby girl.
#9.
When my mother told me she had repeatedly seen herself dead in a coffin, I brushed it off and said something like, “Growing older brings on thoughts of death.”
She died a week later.
I read a book about death and dying and learned from a known religious philosopher, Carl Jung, that every living creature from bugs to humans…
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