# Best last words.... **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 18, 2006, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-last-words/357312 "2006-05-18T20:25:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2006, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-last-words/357312/21 "2006-05-19T05:03:50Z")
Last words recorded on the majority of flight recorders recovered after plane crashes: “Oh, shit.” * * * "Adieu, my friends! I go to glory! Isadora Duncan * * * “Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.” Tolstoy on deathbead on being asked to return to the fold of the Russian Orthodox Church ---
**Author:** ![MrJackboots](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MrJackboots](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrJackboots)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2006, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-last-words/357312/22 "2006-05-19T09:01:24Z")
> [@Hung Mung](#): > > **silenus** took my first choice, so I’ll go with Dominique Bouhours, grammarian to the last. > “I am about to, or I am going to, die; either expression is used.” In a similar vein, the Marquis de Favras, in the French Revolution: “I see that you have made three spelling mistakes.” (the clerk handed him an official copy of his sentence as he was led to be hanged) ---
**Author:** ![Sophistry\_and\_Illusion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Sophistry\_and\_Illusion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sophistry_and_Illusion)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2006, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-last-words/357312/23 "2006-05-19T09:08:51Z")
Lytton Strachey: “If this is dying, I don’t think much of it.” ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2006, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-last-words/357312/24 "2006-05-19T10:23:04Z")
“Turn me. I am roasted on one side.” St. Lawrence, while being slowy burnt over coals by the Romans in 258 AD. ---
**Author:** ![HazelNutCoffee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ac91a4/32.png) [@HazelNutCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HazelNutCoffee)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2006, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-last-words/357312/25 "2006-05-19T10:39:02Z")
I must go in, the fog is rising. - Emily Dickinson ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2006, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-last-words/357312/26 "2006-05-19T11:34:42Z")
“Pardonnez-moi, monsieur.” **Marie Antoinette** , as she accidentally stepped on her executioner’s foot. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2006, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-last-words/357312/27 "2006-05-19T11:38:57Z")
> [@gitfiddle](#): > > I’ve heard that Oscar Wilde said something about changing the wallpaper just before he died. “Either this wallpaper goes or I do.” - O.W. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2006, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-last-words/357312/28 "2006-05-19T12:02:11Z")
I am planning to use ‘I want you to have the most valued item I own, my …’ Dying is easy, _comedy_ is hard. Dying with comedy? Double-bad hard. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2006, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-last-words/357312/29 "2006-05-19T13:29:24Z")
“It ain’t loaded. See?” said by one of my students just before putting a bullet through his own head. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2006, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-last-words/357312/30 "2006-05-19T13:45:28Z")
> [@Yllaria](#): > > "Adieu, my friends! I go to glory! > > Isadora Duncan I was going to doubt this since she died from a snapped neck, but [this site](http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/6537/real-d.htm) mentions the words and the type of death so I guess I will suspend disbelief. “Died almost instantly” but had time to blurt out inspirational words?? > [@Hung Mung](#): > > silenus took my first choice, so I’ll go with Dominique Bouhours, grammarian to the last. > “I am about to, or I am going to, die; either expression is used.” That was the one I came in to mention. I love that! ---
**Author:** ![CoBa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f6c823/32.png) [@CoBa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CoBa)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2006, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-last-words/357312/31 "2006-05-19T14:06:39Z")
Don’t let it end like this. Tell them I said something. ~~ Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary, d. 1923 ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2006, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-last-words/357312/32 "2006-05-19T14:40:16Z")
“I’m not ill, I’m fucking dying!” Can’t remember the source, they may not even be last words at all - an Internet search reveals… nothing. ---
**Author:** ![minor7flat5](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minor7flat5/32/258_2.png) [@minor7flat5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minor7flat5)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2006, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-last-words/357312/33 "2006-05-19T16:40:15Z")
“Hey, fellas! How about this for a headline for tomorrow’s paper? ‘French Fries’!” – Convicted murderer James French to the press before his execution in the electric chair. (from [this list](http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Last_words)) ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2006, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-last-words/357312/34 "2006-05-19T16:48:45Z")
John Lennon: Yeah (In response to one of the police officers who asked him “Are you John Lennon?”) ---
**Author:** ![Rayne\_Man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/df705f/32.png) [@Rayne\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rayne_Man)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2006, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-last-words/357312/35 "2006-05-19T18:45:16Z")
Britain’s King George V lies in his bed at Sandringham House on the verge of death, surrounded by his family. Concerned with keeping his royal patient’s spirits up, the King’s physician reportedly suggests, “Your Majesty will soon be well enough to visit Bognor.” (a well known seaside resort) The King replies, “Bugger Bognor,” and promptly dies. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2006, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-last-words/357312/36 "2006-05-19T20:01:08Z")
Former Vice President of the U.S., Alben W. Barkley, speaking at a college commencement: “I would rather be a servant in the house of the Lord than to dwell in the seats of the mighty.” Then he collapsed and died. ---
**Author:** ![FatBaldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecd19e/32.png) [@FatBaldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FatBaldGuy)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2006, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-last-words/357312/37 "2006-05-19T20:35:51Z")
Courtesy of Jeff Foxworthy, the most common Redneck last words… **"Hey, y’all, watch this!"** ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2006, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-last-words/357312/38 "2006-05-19T20:56:36Z")
Ok…no one do anything until I get back from this business with this Burr fellow. Alexander Hamilton to his Bank of New York employees (and they still sit around doing nothing to this day 😃 ) ---
**Author:** ![KGS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90ced4/32.png) [@KGS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KGS)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2006, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-last-words/357312/39 "2006-05-20T21:18:40Z")
“More weight.” – Giles Corey, while being tortured for refusing to cooperate in the 1692 Salem Witch Trials. > [@Scumpup](#): > > “It ain’t loaded. See?” said by one of my students just before putting a bullet through his own head. Or Terry Kath, guitarist & singer of the band Chicago. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2006, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-last-words/357312/40 "2006-05-20T21:25:18Z")
> [@FatBaldGuy](#): > > Courtesy of Jeff Foxworthy, the most common Redneck last words… > > **"Hey, y’all, watch this!"** Also courtesy of Mr. Foxworthy, the most common really redneck last words are - **"Shoot, that ain’t nothin’. Watch _this_!"** Regards, Shodan [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-last-words/357312.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-last-words/357312.md?page=3)