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Famous Last Words!

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Have you ever wondered what someone’s last words were? Not to be morbid; but, I think this is one of the few times in life when you can be almost certain that you’re (probably) hearing the truth. Conse- quently I often enjoy finding out what famous people have had to say, ‘on their way out the door’.

Of course, you have to be careful with criminals; and, somehow, ‘I’m completely innocent!' just doesn’t ring true. Still, most of the time, you get to hear some remarkably candid comments. I’d like to know about any remarks you may be aware of. Here’s the first of several I particularly like. May God rest their souls!

(Written in a suicide note left for her disinterested fiancé.)

‘When I am dead and over me bright April shakes out her rain drenched hair, though you should lean above me, broken hearted, I shall not care. For I shall have peace as leafy trees are peaceful when rain bends down the bough; and, then, I shall be more silent and coldhearted than you are now.’

- Sara Teasdale, poet, died: 1933
She seems to have been an interesting woman. Too bad she didn’t wait awhile before taking such a drastic step. I'm sure better would have come along. Besides, it sounds like the bum really wasn’t worth it - anyway!
 
#2 ·
nice. We always used to play a game called Infamous Last Words... kinda like a darwin awards thing where we would come up with one-liners that set up a situation where someone ends up dust... e.g.

"a little ammonia, a little bleach... this will clean up in no time!"

"this egg salad hasn't been sitting around THAT long"

"red and yellow, friend of fellow... that's one of them good snakes"

"of COURSE it's unloaded, silly"

things like that...

some true famous last words:

sick on a journey,
my dreams wonder
these withered fields.
- Japanese haiku poet Basho (the greatest)

Timothy McVeigh's final statement, reading the poem Invictus:
William Ernest Henley. 1849–1903

Invictus

OUT of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

FDR:
I have a terrific headache.
- guess so, he died of a cerebral hemmorage right after that while someone was painting his portrait.

Francisco "Pancho" Villa's dying words, said to a reporter:
Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
Nostradamus:
"Tomorrow, I shall no longer be here."
(got that one right)

Lee Harvey Oswald:
"I will be glad to discuss this proposition with my attorney, and that after I talk with one, we could either discuss it with him or discuss it with my attorney if the attorney thinnks it is a wise thing to do, but at the present time I have nothing more to say to you."

Joseph Henry Green
"Congestion. Stopped."
(Joseph Henry Green was a distinguished 19th century British surgeon. On his deathbed he is said to have remarked, "Congestion," after taking an especially raspy breath. He then checked his own pulse, announced "Stopped," and died.)
 
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"Hey y'all, Hold mah beer and watch this!" ~~ ******* proverb.

"How bad could it be?" ~~ too many to list

"It's just the point element of a platoon." ~~ 6-man Ranger hunter/killer team in Vietnam as they ambush the point element of an NVA batallion, from Charlie Rangers

"What the fuck was that?" ~~ Mayor of Hiroshima

"What do you mean she's your wife?" ~~ Don't ask.

Corollary:
"What do you mean she's your daughter?" ~~ Don't ask.

"Who's grenade is that?"
 
#4 ·
Magnum88C said:
"Hey y'all, Hold mah beer and watch this!" ~~ ******* proverb.

"How bad could it be?" ~~ too many to list

"It's just the point element of a platoon." ~~ 6-man Ranger hunter/killer team in Vietnam as they ambush the point element of an NVA batallion, from Charlie Rangers

"What the fuck was that?" ~~ Mayor of Hiroshima

"What do you mean she's your wife?" ~~ Don't ask.

Corollary:
"What do you mean she's your daughter?" ~~ Don't ask.

"Who's grenade is that?"
:laugh01: :laugh01: :laugh01:
 
#5 ·
While berating the men of his brigade for ducking at the sound of Confederate marksmens’ rifle fire:

‘What! What, men? Dodging this way for single bullets! What will you do when they open fire along the whole line? I am ashamed of you. They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance!’
Last words of the popular Union General John Sedgwick, Died: May 8, 1864


Spoken during the Spanish-American War by one of the 3 men who founded Roosevelt’s Rough Riders. :

‘Sergeant, the Spanish bullet isn't made that will kill me!’
Last words of Rough Rider, Captain William, ‘Buckey’ O'Neill, Died: July 1, 1898 O’Neill had a theory that an officer ought never to take cover while in front of his men! He was, both, greatly admired and frequently admonished over this. Unfortunately he should have listened!


Spoken moments before his execution by military firing squad:

‘Take a step or two forward, lads. It will be easier that way!’
Last words of Irish Author and Free Statesman, Robert Erskine Childers, Died: November 24, 1922


Spoken moments before his execution by military firing squad:

‘Shoot straight, you bastards! Don't make a mess of it!’
Last words of Australian Poet, Horse Trainer, and British Army Lieutenant, Harry 'Breaker' Morant, Died: February 27, 1902


Here’s my own personal favorite of them all.

‘If the heart be right, it’s no matter which way the head is placed. Strike, man, strike!’
Last words of Sir Walter Raleigh, (Unjustly) executed: October 29, 1618. After he mounted the scaffold, Sir Walter is said to have examined the headsman’s axe and commented, ‘T’is sharp medicine, and a sure physician for whatever ails you!’

The morning after Sir Walter’s execution this poem was found lying on top of a table in his cell. It was, probably, written the night before:

‘Even such is time, that takes in trust
Our youth, our joys, our all we have,
And pays us but with earth and dust;
Who, in the dark and silent grave,
When we have wandered all our ways,
Shuts up the story of our days;
But from this earth, this grave, this dust,
My God shall raise me up, I trust.’
Last, but, not least: Spoken to her housekeeper who had begun to pray aloud while the renown thespian was on her deathbed:

‘Damn it! Don't you dare ask God to help me.’
The ghastly last words of film actress Joan Crawford, Died: May 10, 1977
 
#7 ·
Aristotle said:
"I drank what?"
After downing a full glass of hemlock.
 
#10 ·
"S#!t . . . I didn't think they were going to get THIS mad! . . ."

osama bin laden

(it'll take a little while yet, but don't worry)
 
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