Doctors see absolutely everything, from pregnancy and birth to death - but there are some moments that stick with them.
Being with patients who are on their deathbeds often means that doctors and nurses are the ones who will hear their final words.
But what if those words were haunting?
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That’s what one social media user wanted to know, which prompted them to ask the people of Reddit: "What were the creepiest last words you heard from a patient right before they died?"
And the responses were wild.
With over 2,000 professionals in the comments, there were a range of creepy final words, and they’ll stay with you too.
But this one? It's the creepiest of all.
The man in black
One person recalled a terrifying moment that a woman admitted that she saw a man dressed in black just moments before she'd take her last breath, which freaked out the professional so much he didn't want to be in the room afterwards.
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The person recalled: "A nice old lady told my CNA she wanted to wear all white. When asked why, she said 'The man in black is here'. She looked in the corner of the room. The CNA looked, but there was no one there. That's when I came into the room. We asked her to describe what she was seeing, and she said, 'he's in all black, and he's got a top hat on'.
"Then she whispered 'and his eyes are red' while her eyes moved across the room to directly behind the CNA, like she was watching him move closer to us. She died later that night. But it was unexpected. That room creeped me out for a long time after that."
That's not something I'd ever want to hear from a person who's about to die.
A visit from a relative
Someone wrote about an 83-year-old woman that said 'My mum's here. Are we going?', only to die minutes later.
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A premonition
Another older lady was remembered as saying, ‘I think I'm going to die today...’.
The nurse said: "We took vitals, and everything seemed fine. She was stable. She had a heart attack a couple of hours later. Not her last words, but the last she ever said to me."
A visit from an angel
Someone else recalled working in an assisted unit with people who had dementia and Alzheimer's.
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They said: "My very favourite patient had been declining pretty steadily so I was checking on him very frequently.
"We would have long chats and joke around with each other, but in the last two weeks of his life, he stopped talking completely and didn't really acknowledge conversation directed at him at all. I finished my medication rounds for the evening and went to see him before I left. I told him I was leaving for the night and that I'd see him the following day, and he looked me in the eyes and smiled so genuinely and said, 'You look like an angel.' I thought it was so sweet because he had not seemed lucid in weeks.
"He died the next morning. It really messed with me."
The deathbed confession
One person said: "Surgeon here. A man on his deathbed kept repeating ‘the body is in the woods next to the oak tree’ over and over until he passed.
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"The police were notified and searched some woods behind the man's house but never found anything."
A cold case solved by a deathbed confession?
Those stories seemed to have really upset the professionals who can still recall the exact words all these years later.
Britt Jones