God, I miss her."
Losing a parent is hard.
Here’s what they had to say:
1.
“My father was dying of liver cancer rather suddenly.
On his last day, he was awake, and we talked all day.
He fell asleep and passed.”
anonymous
2.
“My mom was in the intensive care unit.
Then she closed her eyes and passed.
I totally understand what she meant since I’ve been married for 33 years.”
God, I miss her."
“My mom had been dealing with brain cancer for 14 months, and it was nearing the end.
She was very restless and upset.
I asked her what was wrong.
And no, we were not prostitutes.”
Her father, Michael, was the love of her mother’s life and had died several years earlier.
During one lucid moment, my friend’s mother said, ‘Michael keeps asking me to dance.’
My friend replied, ‘Oh, Mama, say yes.’
backagain
6.
She passed four days later.
I didn’t think much of what she said as I had been single for a long time.
beccar1987
7. cardev
8.
He was found having passed peacefully in his bed later in the afternoon."
“My father was a successful but angry man due to a very difficult upbringing.
His last words were, ‘Fuck em, fuck em all.’
“My 84-year-old great-uncle and his wife, parents of 11 children, held hands as he lay dying.
He looked at her and muttered his last words, ‘Will you marry me?'”
“When my mom passed away, the last words she said were, ‘I’m coming…
I’m coming, Carl!’
Carl was her brother (my uncle) who passed away a few months before her.
I understand that not everyone believes in heaven, but that’s my interpretation behind her last statement.”
betherick85
12.
“My wife’s grandmother passed away at the age of 94.
The last thing she said to any of the family members was ‘get me better doctors.'”
“My Dad had stage 4 lung cancer and only a few days to live.
I was so upset; the thoughts of losing my Dad forever were overwhelming.
My Dad was always cracking jokes.
That was his last one.”
“My father’s last words heard were ‘Doodie, the devil has me.
I’m in his grasp right now.’
I said, ‘Do you see Jesus?
Call out to him.’
He replied, ‘It’s too late.'”
“When my widowed grandma was dying in a hospital, she kept coming in and out of sleep.
funkmistress
16.
“My mother was dying from bone and brain cancer.
She suddenly lit up and said, ‘Momma?
AUNT MARGIE?!’
They’re waiting for me!’
With tears in my eyes, I told her, ‘Go, Momma.
“My father passed May 31, 2020 (not from Covid).
The Friday before he passed, he had the nurse call me from his hospital room.
He told me that he loved me.
He never said that to me in his 93 years.
That’s when I knew he was going.
The four of us got to say goodbye.”
“In life, my father-in-law was always witty and quick with clever retorts.
About ten family members had gathered in the room, sitting solemnly around the bed.
Nurses came and went, tending to his needs and advising us that the end was near.
It’s Chaplain Fred.
Johnny’s eyes popped open, and he exclaimed, ‘Good or bad?’
Everyone in the room burst out laughing.
Those were his last words.
He passed a few hours later.”
I spent those days talking to her, hoping she could hear me.
She opened her eyes once, looked at me, and said, “SHHHHH!!!
Daddy and I are talking!”
(Daddy had been gone since 1983.)
She closed her eyes again and passed the next afternoon.”
catnelsonl
20.
“My father was on an aircraft carrier in the Philippines during WWII.
When he was on his deathbed, he suddenly grabbed my hand and said, ‘The explosions!
You stay here where the oxygen, alcohol, and ammunition are.’
I assumed he was reliving an experience from the war, but it still sounds like good advice.”
I SEE THE LIGHT!’
And then he went back into unconsciousness.”
Less than 24 hours later, without waking again, he passed.
And I will always laugh about him ‘seeing the light.'”
britb4319b7e9e
22.
I’m so happy!’
It was the greatest gift I ever received or ever will."
“My dad was 87 years old on hospice care at home.
In his last moments, the caretaker gathered all of us around his bed.
I don’t want to leave you alone!’
We were all crying.
My mom replied, ‘Honey I will be OK you’re free to let go.
It’s OK.’ Then he relaxed and let go and passed away.”
“I never felt anything I did was good enough for my Mom.
Years later, she was rushed into emergency surgery.
Those were the last words I ever heard her say.”
She was lucid right to the end and knew everything that was happening to her.
‘It’s almost time.'"
“My mother was 90 and diagnosed with end-stage colon cancer.
She was at the very end and had been unconscious for quite a few days.
Suddenly, she opened her eyes, sat up, and said, ‘Am I back?’
I asked, ‘From where?’
But she never answered me.
She just laid back down and quietly passed away.”
I want to believe that’s what my father was doing before leaving us."
applesauceandchops
28.
“My grandmother suffered from Alzheimer’s for more than eight years.
As the end neared, she could not form words, but that didn’t stop her from talking.
As always, she chatted on and on, even though it was just gibberish.
She said those words with such joy!
The next night, she passed away, not having uttered another intelligible word.
Alzheimer’s took all of her except her love for her great-granddaughter.”
I told him I did, and that’s the last time I saw him alive.
He was the best daddy.
I saw a big rainbow on his birthday that year."
Iluvfreddie
30.
My cousin-in-law would smuggle in takeout from nearby restaurants when he visited.
My husband and I visited him one afternoon when we knew the end was close.
He was napping but woke up long enough to talk for a few minutes.
My husband asked him how he’d liked the lunch his cousin had brought in earlier.
Grandpa said, ‘Eh, the chicken was dry,’ and drifted back to sleep.
He never regained consciousness and died the next day.
That was such a typical question, a critique of what I was wearing.
I said yes, and she said, ‘Well, there’s a spot on it.’
“I was sitting by my dad’s bed on his final night.
There’s nothing you could do about that.
What you could do something about are all the days you have before that day.’
He then closed his eyes and passed a few hours later.”
“We learned that my mom had lung cancer when she was only 57.
It metastasized to her lymph nodes and then her bones.
We were keeping her pumped full of morphine because the pain was so bad.
She didn’t see heaven or her mom or Jesus.
She didn’t make a deathbed confession or say she loved us.
She was a smoker.
I’m not sayin’ don’t smoke, but don’t smoke.”
to which the daughters essentially said ‘Mom, it’s us, and these are the nurses.’
s45b9ebeb9
35.
“My mother had congestive heart failure.
As we talked, she became quiet and looked me straight into my eyes.
Her last words to me were: ‘You are a good boy.’
She closed her eyes, never spoke again, and passed the next day.
What a gift she left me!”
