Patients Whose Last Words Made Nurses' Blood Run Cold

While caring for dying patients, these doctors and nurses bore witness to last words that stuck with them well after the workday. They couldn't get them out of their heads, so the medical professionals shared the haunting messages on Reddit. Whether spoken in a state of delirium, fear, or peace, these thoughts that patients shared in their penultimate moments are something these medical professionals will never forget.

The oak tree

"The body is in the woods next to the oak tree." One surgeon said that, while a patient was on his deathbed, he repeated this phrase for hours. The police were called to investigate but found nothing. A true deathbed confession?

In hell

"Am I dead? I'm in hell." A lab tech was taking blood from a coding patient when he suddenly locked eyes with her and said these haunting words. He died within a few hours. Hopefully for his sake, he ended up somewhere more north of Hell.

No eyes

"They have no eyes." These last words are pure nightmare fuel spoken by one Reddit user's grandfather in his final moments. It's probably best not to try and picture what he was talking about if you plan on sleeping tonight.

Fire everywhere

"Fire! Fire! There's fire everywhere!" One hospital worker had an encounter with a patient who said,"You know where I’m going when I die. And it ain’t up." When the nurse asked if she wanted to see the priest, she said, "It's too late for that."