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WotD: Deathbed confession
We all have secrets and skeletons in our closets.
Some of them we will take to the grave, but some of us will reveal all in a deathbed confession.
A deathbed confession occurs when you confess or admit to a crime or something bad you have done just before you die.
I’ve always thought that was one of the great things about being a Catholic.
When you are dying, call for the priest, confess everything, and ask for forgiveness.
If you are sincere, God will understand.
After all, we are only humans, and humans are fallible.
Ask for forgiveness with sincerity, and you, my Catholic friend, are in the HOV (high occupancy vehicle) lane on the highway to heaven.
If you’re not Catholic, you might as well give a deathbed confession anyway.
I mean, what can it hurt?
They don’t put dead people in jail.
I’m not sure if RSVPs for Heaven have a plus one, but I’ll try to get you in.
My dad always said he would be working the gate to heaven with Saint Peter.
If he is there, I’ll get you in – no problem.
Seriously though, some who commit serious crimes are never caught or never admit what they did.
Giving a deathbed confession can help ease their conscience and lighten the burden they have carried throughout their lives.
Deathbed confessions also help the families of victims to attain closure or solve mysteries that have bothered reporters, historians and police for decades.
An unsolved crime means the case cannot be closed.
Think about Jack the Ripper, who terrified Whitechapel in the East End of London in 1888.
He was never caught, there was no deathbed confession, and the crimes still puzzle people to this day.
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