Starbuckone:
Quite.
What I find amusing about claims that such and such had a death-bed conversion [DBC] is that these stories always seem to be told by people of faith. Very rarely (if ever) are these supposed DBCs witnessed by several objective observers – the nature of most people's death being a very private affair.
The claim that Darwin had a DBC for example, is demonstrably false and yet it is repeated time and time again. The claim originates from Elizabeth [Lady] Hope (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Hope) who, according to Darwin's daughter, never even met him and/or if she did, waited 34 years before she decided to tell the world about Darwin's supposed DBC.
This from Wikipedia -
“From Darwin's daughter: "I was present at his deathbed. Lady Hope was not present during his last illness, or any illness. I believe he never even saw her, but in any case she had no influence over him in any department of thought or belief. He never recanted any of his scientific views, either then or earlier. We think the story of his conversion was fabricated in the U.S.A. The whole story has no foundation whatever."
http://en.wikipedia.o...i/Deathbed_conversion
As I said earlier, such claims are mostly twaddle.