The unavoidable reality is that everything we’re doing is temporary. We will all pass away. And when your life is nearing its end, you start to realize what the most important, fundamental things are. Suddenly, there’s no real reason to keep lying, neither to yourself nor to others. However, the truth isn’t always pleasant to hear.

Internet users have been opening up on Quora about the most shocking, sad, and wild deathbed confessions that they have personally witnessed. Scroll down to read what they heard.

Just be warned, many of these stories are very sensitive, emotionally intense, and potentially triggering.

When I was in school I was shadowing an ICU nurse and we were taking care of an elderly woman dying of brain cancer. One day when her family went home for the night and we were

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