AITA for telling a dying man's daughters what he confided to me before he passed?
I have volunteered at hospice for six years now, and I sat with a patient (81M) named Walter for the last three weeks of his life. His wife had passed years before and his two daughters, one (54F) and one (49F), had not spoken kindly to each other in a long time over some old grievance about the family lake house. One night when only I was there Walter told me quietly that he wanted the younger one to have his mother's wedding ring, not the older one who always assumed it was hers, and that he was ashamed he never wrote it down anywhere. He died four days later before he could change anything with his lawyer. When the older daughter started going through his jewelry box I told her, gently, what her father had said to me. She was furious and said I had no right to insert myself into their family, that I was "just the hospice lady" and not a witness that counts. The younger daughter believes me completely and now they are not speaking at all, and the older one called the hospice office to complain about me. My supervisor has not disciplined me but did remind me that volunteers are meant to comfort, not to carry messages between family members. I keep thinking of how Walter looked when he told me, like it mattered so much to him, and I could not bear to let his wish just disappear with him.
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