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A bizarre Reddit from two years ago has resurfaced this week and even with a healthy dose of open-mindedness, this must be one of the weirdest last requests we’ve ever heard of.

Some poor guy posted that his wife was diagnosed with a terminal illness that would in all likelihood claim her life within the next nine months, of which the last six or seven would see her confined to a wheelchair.

With this in mind, the supportive hubby asked his wife if there was anything she would want to do before the disease forced her to be bed-ridden. Her answer must have not been what he was hoping for. Instead of requesting to go see the Taj Mahal, or jump out of an aeroplane, the poster’s wife had a far more intimate idea, and it didn’t include him.

The wife asked to have sex with her former boyfriend one last time, as he apparently was the only person she had ever felt ‘sexually compatible with’. Surely the husband’s first response would have been: “Come again?”

“Recently she sat me down and told me that one of the last things she wanted to do was have sex with a previous partner of hers. So basically she thinks that her most physically compatible and satisfying lover was him. She gave a whole monologue about how sex sometimes is just physical and how emotionally fulfilling sex is with me but it was bulls—t to get to that point,” he continued.

Battered and bruised ego aside, the poor guy actually had to think this over for a bit, saying, “So now I’m left with this, deny my dying wife a wish for my own ego, or let her go f—k another man who she feels was better. Honestly, I’m so pissed off and betrayed that she asked this of me. I feel like I’m put in a position where I have to say yes because she’s dying.”

Naturally, those commenting on his dismay had no such loyalties to the wife.

“If her dying wish was to murder a child, would we grant that wish? How about to go on safari and hunt an endangered animal? Or to rob a bank? Dying wishes aren’t free passes for s**t behavior.”

“If she’s committed to this course of action, then the relationship is over, and she can die alone in a hospice or with her f***kboy.”

“Dying doesn’t mean suddenly you can live your wildest fantasies even if they really hurt people. You don’t get a pass where you’re suddenly allowed to do whatever you want with no consequence.”

To be honest, I can’t think of a worse thing to be asked by a dying spouse. Since this was posted a while ago, and if true, we can safely assume the lady has gone into the clearing at the end of the path by now.

We may never know how her husband responded to this selfish request, but the last few months they had together must have been sad beyond just the spectre of death.

If anyone is in the mood for a fight, why not ask your spouse this question casually over dinner tonight? Just sit at least an arms length away.

[source:nypost]