Comments on: Not-quite-famous (but still great) last words

By: Sarah

Sarah — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 19:23:41 +0000

I really like the supposed last words of Robert Louis Stevenson:

“What’s the matter with me? What is this strangeness? Has my face changed?”

By: Ansav

Ansav — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:25:44 +0000

According to my mother’s only brother (who is himself now deceased), my mother and his 3 other sisters took my grandmother out of the hospital room where my grandfather lay dying of lung cancer in order to just get out of the room for a few minutes and have some coffee. At that point, my uncle claimed that my grandfather turned to him and said, “Well, thank God. Now I can die in some peace.”

My grandfather wasn’t a sourpuss at all; I think he was just really, really tired.

By: Tanya

Tanya — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 05:18:57 +0000

“It’s a beautiful day. I think I’m done here.” – Dickie Massengail, 29, just before he closed his eyes forever after battling colon cancer.

By: Gary

Gary — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 22:24:20 +0000

“Turn up the radio and I’ll go quietly.”

– last words of Peter Manuel, serial killer convicted of murdering seven people but suspected of more than twice as many, before being hanged in Glasgow, Scotland, 11 July 1958.

By: Johnny Cat

Johnny Cat — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 17:35:08 +0000

Governor Connelly’s wife: “You certainly can’t say that the people of Dallas haven’t given you a nice reception.”

JFK: “No, you certainly can’t.”

Talk about irony.

By: Judy

Judy — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 15:07:29 +0000

My teacher in high school would always quote Gen. John Sedgwick’s last words “They couldn’t hit an elephant at this dist-.” uttered during a U.S. Civil War battle in 1864… ironic eh?

By: TMo

TMo — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 14:35:05 +0000

Ibsen’s a beast yo

By: Scott from Cincy

Scott from Cincy — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 13:28:27 +0000

I like the They Might Be Giants reference about disappointments! Or did they borrow it from someone else?