Sometimes people take thing to the grave accent and other clock time they wait until just before they die to do a " mic drop . "
Recently, IaskedtheBuzzFeed Communitymembers to tell us the wildest thing they learned about their family or a family member when someone was on their deathbed. And, of course, people had someinterestingstories to share!
So without further ado, here are the intriguing deathbed confessions people made to their family members:
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" My great - granddaddy revealed that my grandmother was not his only child . In the 1930s , when his longtimebest friendwas unable to impregnate his wife , my not bad - gramps expend a week in a remote cabin in the Ozarks deliver sex with the woman so as to give them a child . It worked and she became pregnant . The couple then travel off to start a unexampled living as a family . The only parallelism my great - grandfather received from them afterward was a loving letter carry confirmation the tiddler was born a healthy female person . He never see his supporter again . "
— Anonymous
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" My uncle who had been a knight bachelor his whole life only endue his three niece $ 5 every Christmas . Every class $ 5 . After he died not only did we find out he was a millionaire , but that he also had a secret girl he never told anyone about and that he had been supporting her for over 50 eld . She inherited everything . "
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" This is a light - hearted one : When my neat - grandmother was die , she narrate my mummy that she ’d been using a fake name since she was 13 . There ’s no big , exciting reason for it . She just thought that her original name was ugly and quondam - fashioned , so when she leave home to run in another town , she decide to reinvent herself with a trendier , more stylish name : Ethel . "
— katieeighty
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" So , this may or may not be wild to anyone else but for me it was , and it was also uproarious . So , when I was born my grandfather on my mom ’s side named my first and middle . Well , no problem whatsoever ; however , my mamma ’s mum did n’t really wish it as I grew up and never know why that was — so I did n’t like her either .
Well , I found out when my grandad was on his deathbed and revealed where he had gotten my name from . My name is n’t exactly democratic nor is it a rare name either . He grow to my 14 - year - old self and state : ' I am so felicitous I name you after the sexual love of my lifetime . I hope I see her in heaven . ' Ummm , yeah , LOL . My grandfather named me after an ex - sexual love whom he was still in sexual love with and admitted he did n’t put up his married woman . "
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" My grandfather admitted he on purpose pitted my two uncle against each other , though I did n’t learn this until after his passing play . Now I understand why my uncles stormily hate one another . "
— bestcookie705
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" My mother confessed to my baby and I that if she could live her life over she would n’t have children . WHAT ? Thanks , mom ! "
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" I learned that I was not bring up by my mother from birthing until I was old enough to go to school . When I was conceived my parent were go through a divorcement and she was not well-chosen about being pregnant . Which made sense , because in all of my core memories , she is n’t involve . "
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" My paternal grandfather revealed that two of the children he raised with his wife were not his biologically . My father and his younger sister were the result of two of my gran ’s many affairs . To make it bad , my granddaddy would not name the biological fathers . "
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" Knowing the final stage was near , my father disburden himself with this . While serve in the Marines he was place at Atsugi Naval Air Base in Japan , where he befriended fellow soldier Lee Harvey Oswald . They were recognize to run identity card together , eat up their meals together , go see movies , etc .
After the character assassination and knowing that all Oswald ’s ' Quaker ' were being round up and interviewed ( and some of their names dragged through the clay ) he never openly spoke of it . He said he look for that inevitable knock at the door from the FBI to interview him , but it never came . My Father ’s most telling comment ? Oswald was not the ' communist loving loner ' he was impersonate as being . "
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" My mother told me that she was a lesbian . It was not allow in her sentence . She married my father so she would n’t be deliberate an former maidservant . She never wanted minor . "
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" Other agency around … when my grandad was on his deathbed , when I was alone with him for a second , I whisper that I’mbisexualand glad . Do n’t do it if he was witting during those last two mean solar day , so I ’ll never have it off if he heard me . But he was the one person in my family who ever speak about queer masses with erotic love , so I hope that he heard me and it was one last good matter before he passed . "
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" I am the oldest , now 67 , of six kid , our father told my sisters and I that I was plan and the rest of my siblings were mistakes . And we might have a brother or sis in Korea . "
— reese25
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" My rare family name was change back in the recent 1920s to a very generic surname . Only three people knew why and they were depose to secrecy . The last subsister finally fessed up LITERALLY hour before he go on away . A family fellow member had planned to espouse the girl of a high - outrank Chicago criminal offense kinsfolk member . The capo of the law-breaking family line not only objected ( my family unit is not white-hot , and not Italian , and mixed marriages were not satisfactory ) , but endanger the integral family if the wedding ceremony ( or an elopement ) occurred .
As a affair of survival , my people change their name and moved to Wisconsin in the heart of the night hop to disappear . The wedding never happen , but my ascendant was terrify of either the crime Bos or his spurned daughter place the family . It was a sort of rudimentary looker protection plan . "
Note : Some responses have been edit for distance and/or clarity .
