Deathbed confessions

[Thankyou4calling]

I don't understand why more don't do them?

Criminals, cheats, con artists etc.

Maybe they do and I'm unaware but if more crims for instance confessed to crimes they were suspected of it'd save a lot of police time and family anguish.

Could we incentivise people somehow.

Just musing nothing to confess personally.

[MikeM6]

Maybe there are other things to think about when dying, or no opportunity to think at all.

[silverfoxcc]

With my luck, i would recover...so it is a sealed envelope to be opened after the smoke clears

[Pete102]

I would hazard a guess that the moral compass of a hardcore criminal is not calibrated to confessing crimes at any point, regardless of the benefit.

[Roofless Toothless]

Many, perhaps most, crimes are involved with having power over other people. Not confessing at death is a way of continuing that power beyond the grave.

[jfdi]

So if I cough to several bank robberies and a few murders on my deathbed the kids get some bonus inheritance?
Can't see that being abused in anyway

[Rh14n]

Roofless Toothless said:

Many, perhaps most, crimes are involved with having power over other people. Not confessing at death is a way of continuing that power beyond the grave.

This. ^^^

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How do you incentivise a dying person?

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[Dbag101]

Roofless Toothless said:

Many, perhaps most, crimes are involved with having power over other people. Not confessing at death is a way of continuing that power beyond the grave.

Ian Brady, to give a great example. He never did say where Keith Bennett ended up. It was believed that he knew full well where he had disposed of the body, but just led searchers on a wild goose chase, to get some time out in the open. There is a school of thought, that says Brady may have actually buried the body at one of his previous addresses, or indeed moved him around, and not left him in any one place, for long. Taking searchers up on to the moors was a red herring.

[WrekinCrew]

Does the Proceeds of Crime Act apply after death? If so you might not want your family left penniless.

[Sheets Tabuer]

It'll be on my death bed I finally confess to the mrs that I was indeed looking down the barmaids top.

[tim0409]

If you were dying what would the incentive be for confessing? Most people care about how they are remembered, so confessing to a crime doesn’t really benefit them or their legacy.

[Chauffard]

It also applies to smaller stuff, if your Dad confessed on his deathbed that instead of Sgt. Fury your beloved childhood cat just wandering off, he backed over it in his Ford Consul, would you think better of him ?

[Gt6turbo]

My grandmother told her daughter she had a step daughter, never spoke about it before she was adopted off. She died a few weeks later.

Not a deathbed one but triggered by her step daughter sending a letter.

Edited by Gt6turbo on Friday 4th April 19:06

[bristolracer]

When my Mum died, my Dad told us all about the brother we had who had died before we were born.

[Monkeylegend]

A bit like the old joke.

"Dad, what will we get now you are on your deathbed and are about to die?"

"You will get all the houses on this side of the road son, and your sister will get all those on the other side"

"We're rich beyond belief" they both shout.

"No" says Mum, "Dad's talking about his paper round

[anonymous-user]

Monkeylegend said:

A bit like the old joke.

"Dad, what will we get now you are on your deathbed and are about to die?"

"You will get all the houses on this side of the road son, and your sister will get all those on the other side"

"We're rich beyond belief" they both shout.

"No" says Mum, "Dad's talking about his paper round

[Jasandjules]

tim0409 said:

If you were dying what would the incentive be for confessing? Most people care about how they are remembered, so confessing to a crime doesn’t really benefit them or their legacy.

Maybe the crime was to remove a paedo from this life.....