# What will your last words be?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-your-last-words-be/326120>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [October 13, 2005, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-your-last-words-be/326120 "2005-10-13T20:42:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 11\
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**Author:** ![Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cc9497/32.png) [@Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt.Ridley_s_Shooting_Party)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2005, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-your-last-words-be/326120/121 "2005-10-24T15:54:09Z")

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Aarghhh, my SPLEEN!

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**Author:** ![Dob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Dob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dob)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2005, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-your-last-words-be/326120/122 "2005-10-24T16:24:04Z")

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“For the love of God! Here, let me do it…”

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**Author:** ![Marlitharn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Marlitharn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlitharn)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2005, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-your-last-words-be/326120/123 "2005-10-24T16:26:09Z")

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Seeing as how I plan to come back as a ghost and haunt my children and my children’s children until the end of the world out of sheer orneriness, my last words will have to be, “I’ll be back.”

Then I’ll spend the rest of my afterlife jumping out of closets and from under the bed screaming, “Gotcha ya!”

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**Author:** ![SSG\_Schwartz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SSG\_Schwartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SSG_Schwartz)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-your-last-words-be/326120/124 "2006-01-05T19:02:45Z")

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No, my wife has never been to this motel. Why do you ask?

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**Author:** ![buttonjockey308](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@buttonjockey308](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buttonjockey308)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-your-last-words-be/326120/125 "2006-01-05T19:20:15Z")

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As an epitaph “Well This Sucks” on my urn

As my last words…

“Well I’ll be damned…”

or

“Via Con Dios”

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**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-your-last-words-be/326120/126 "2006-01-05T20:47:24Z")

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**I’m Homer Simpson!**

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**Author:** ![Lissa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lissa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissa)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-your-last-words-be/326120/127 "2006-01-05T20:51:48Z")

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I will copy Mr. Hankey.

“I have to tell you something. Come closer . . .closer . . . Once, while you were sleeping, I put myself in your mouth, and had a friend take a picture.”

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**Author:** ![Daithi\_Lacha](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daithi_lacha/32/5430_2.png) [@Daithi\_Lacha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daithi_Lacha)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-your-last-words-be/326120/128 "2006-01-05T21:01:58Z")

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“Message for you, sir.”

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**Author:** ![Wnabtokio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Wnabtokio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wnabtokio)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2006, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-your-last-words-be/326120/129 "2006-01-06T17:11:19Z")

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I did it…for Johnny!  
Who’s Johnny?

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**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:** [January 6, 2006, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-your-last-words-be/326120/130 "2006-01-06T17:36:20Z")

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At the danger of changing the subject, the other night we were talking about the words Saint Peter uses when greeting newcomers. The consensus was …

“I wish you could have seen the look on your face!”

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**Author:** ![gooftroopag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gooftroopag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gooftroopag)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2006, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-your-last-words-be/326120/131 "2006-01-06T19:43:13Z")

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Promise me you won’t let her hold a prayer vigil around me.

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