Leifer
Senior Member.
I ask if they are reliable, because many people believe that deathbed confessions "must" be true for reasons including....
'to cleanse their guilt, and clear their conscience.'
'to reveal important personal information to loved ones.'
'to confess for acceptance into a spiritual afterlife.'
....and they would be correct. These reasons are all plausible, and likely.
Besides, why would they lie, when about to die ?
But in cases of shocking or news-making confessions, belief becomes dependent on evidence.... or at least it should be. (The above reasons could still apply)
If an unsolved murder is confessed, and the confessor is to be believed, it's usually because certain unknown details are revealed as proof.
Conspiracy-confirming deathbed confessions that made "news", were found to be untrue....
E.Howard Hunt (JFK)
Boyd Bushman (UFO's)
CIA Agent (911 plot)
Here is a good short read...
"Bushman's Deathbed Confessions"
Dr. Stuart J. Robbins
excerpt:
'to cleanse their guilt, and clear their conscience.'
'to reveal important personal information to loved ones.'
'to confess for acceptance into a spiritual afterlife.'
....and they would be correct. These reasons are all plausible, and likely.
Besides, why would they lie, when about to die ?
But in cases of shocking or news-making confessions, belief becomes dependent on evidence.... or at least it should be. (The above reasons could still apply)
If an unsolved murder is confessed, and the confessor is to be believed, it's usually because certain unknown details are revealed as proof.
Conspiracy-confirming deathbed confessions that made "news", were found to be untrue....
E.Howard Hunt (JFK)
Boyd Bushman (UFO's)
CIA Agent (911 plot)
Here is a good short read...
"Bushman's Deathbed Confessions"
Dr. Stuart J. Robbins
excerpt:
The thinking could easily be, "People really believe that people are 100% honest on their deathbed, so I'm going to make sure I go out with a 'bang' and make my claims yet again. People who didn't believe me before might this time because they'll think I'm telling the truth 'cause I'm about to die."
However, in addition to explaining why the common reasons to believe deathbed confession testimony are unconvincing, there's a better reason why the testimony is not useful: They're doing it wrong.
Let's say I had a bunch of secrets of exotic physics and decided to do a deathbed confession. Here's what I would say: "I've been working on antigravity and warp field physics for the last 50 years, in secret, with the US government." Then, instead of showing photos of a spaceship or a blurry alien, I would add: "And, here are the equations. Here is a diagram for how you build a device. Here is a working model. Here is exactly how you put everything together."
In other words, it shouldn't matter who I am, what my experience is, or what pretty (or ugly) picture I show. What I need to show is HOW to do it. Just saying something doesn't make it so. I need to give enough information for someone else to verify it and duplicate it. Otherwise, what's the point? To make a spectacle before I die?
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