# Your favorite final words **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 7, 2013, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-final-words/675739 "2013-12-07T08:55:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2013, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-final-words/675739/21 "2013-12-07T19:22:48Z")
> [@Tethered\_Kite](#): > > OT - > > Same here **Canvas Shoes.** We’ve been laughing forever over this line and can’t remember. > > Our three best bets are “The Outrage” with Paul Newman, “Texas Across the River.” and “4 For Texas.” But I can’t nail it down. > > “The Outrage” is based on “Rashomon” an old story where everyone gives version of an incident implicating others and making himself the hero. So maybe it’s the former? You’ve seen it??? My sister and I are quite sure we’re going to go to our graves never knowing what movie it was. And until now, I’ve never met anyone who’s also seen it. You’ve given me renewed hope. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2013, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-final-words/675739/22 "2013-12-07T19:41:06Z")
A bit of black humor: [Terry Kath](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Kath#Death): “Don’t worry, it’s not loaded.” ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2013, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-final-words/675739/23 "2013-12-07T19:50:21Z")
More black humor: “Uh-oh.” Francis “Dick” Scobee, Space Shuttle _Challenger_ Commander ---
**Author:** ![Foggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foggy/32/1082_2.png) [@Foggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foggy)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2013, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-final-words/675739/24 "2013-12-07T20:43:37Z")
> [@](#): > > “Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.” > Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan … ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2013, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-final-words/675739/25 "2013-12-07T20:57:01Z")
> [@Accidental\_Martyr](#): > > “All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.” > -Roy Batty Fictional or not, these have been my favorite “last words” since that film came out. Unless i’m scrambling memories again, the “I’ve seen things…Tannhäuser Gate” lines were scripted; at the last minute, actor Rutger Hauer added the two final sentences (quoted above) with director Ridley Scott’s blessing. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2013, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-final-words/675739/26 "2013-12-07T21:02:34Z")
[Chicago Flight 191](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_Flight_191): “Damn.” To balance things a bit, the best famous but thankfully NOT final words: _“We’ll be in the Hudson!”_ ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2013, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-final-words/675739/27 "2013-12-07T21:06:08Z")
A professor, Dr. Samuel Upham, was on his deathbed and the people gathered there wondered if he’d died. Someone said, “Feel his feet. No one ever died with warm feet.” Dr. Upham opened his eyes. “Joan of Arc did.” _Then_ he died. ---
**Author:** ![Damfino](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Damfino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damfino)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2013, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-final-words/675739/28 "2013-12-07T21:15:50Z")
> [@Tethered\_Kite](#): > > When my dad came back from WWII he apprenticed with an Norwegian immigrant old-style house painter. That way he could make some bucks while he got re-established and settled. > > When Ole (yes, his real name) was dying Dad went to see him. > > Ole was on his back in a hospital bed and the last words he said to my father before he dozed off for the day were, “Da ceilin’ neets paintin’.” > My mother’s last words were to me in four phrases spoken between periods of unconsciousness. In this order: > > 1. Remember, we are strong people. We can survive anything. > > 2. Let me hear from you some time. > > 3. Don’t forget me. > > 4. I love you. > > And I like the possibly apocryphal, “I told you I was sick.” Spike Milligan wanted “I told you I was sick” on his headstone but the church authorities didn’t allow it . So he wrote it in Gaelic . Can’t supply a link from my tab but a google search of "spike Milligan gravestone quip " should yield results ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2013, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-final-words/675739/29 "2013-12-07T21:22:44Z")
Executioner: Any last words? Baron Munchausen: Not yet. General Woundwort: Come back! Come back and fight! Dogs aren’t dangerous! ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2013, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-final-words/675739/30 "2013-12-07T22:07:23Z")
“I am about to – or I am going to – die: either expression is correct.” ~~ Dominique Bouhours, French Grammarian, d. 1702 ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2013, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-final-words/675739/31 "2013-12-07T22:20:56Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > General Woundwort: Come back! Come back and fight! Dogs aren’t dangerous! Aha, but his body was never found… ---
**Author:** ![Tethered\_Kite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a5b964/32.png) [@Tethered\_Kite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tethered_Kite)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2013, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-final-words/675739/32 "2013-12-07T23:14:00Z")
> [@TreacherousCretin](#): > > Fictional or not, these have been my favorite “last words” since that film came out. > > Unless i’m scrambling memories again, the “I’ve seen things…Tannhäuser Gate” lines were scripted; at the last minute, actor Rutger Hauer added the two final sentences (quoted above) with director Ridley Scott’s blessing. That’s possibly one of the most heartwrenchingly beautiful death speeches I’ve ever heard in a film. Pure word pictures. Though I could swear that the first time I watched it he also said something about seeing the two moons (or two suns) rise over the beaches of some planet. I’ve never been able to confirm that. Nor has anyone else. Dontcha just hate that? ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2013, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-final-words/675739/33 "2013-12-08T00:29:07Z")
> [@WhyNot](#): > > “You’re my special girl. I love you so much,” spoken to me by my grandmother. Not sure if she knew it was me or not, but it doesn’t matter. That’s lovely. ---
**Author:** ![LC\_Strawhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e19adc/32.png) [@LC\_Strawhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LC_Strawhouse)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2013, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-final-words/675739/34 "2013-12-08T00:36:27Z")
None of the movies above have anything on **Beavis and Butthead Do America** … Gunman: Do you have any last words? Butthead: Uhhhhh… “butt cheeks”? ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2013, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-final-words/675739/35 "2013-12-08T00:50:03Z")
> [@TreacherousCretin](#): > > Fictional or not, these have been my favorite “last words” since that film came out. > > Unless i’m scrambling memories again, the “I’ve seen things…Tannhäuser Gate” lines were scripted; at the last minute, actor Rutger Hauer added the two final sentences (quoted above) with director Ridley Scott’s blessing. That’s pretty much how it happened according to the Wikipedia page. Hauer dropped some lines and added the ending. > **[Tears in rain monologue](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tears_in_rain_soliloquy)** > > "Tears in rain" is a 42-word monologue, consisting of the last words of character Roy Batty (portrayed by Rutger Hauer) in the 1982 Ridley Scott film Blade Runner. Written by David Peoples and altered by Hauer, the monologue is frequently quoted. Critic Mark Rowlands described it as "perhaps the most moving death soliloquy in cinematic history", and it is commonly viewed as the defining moment of Hauer's acting career. > The monologue is near the conclusion of Blade Runner, in which detective R... ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2013, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-final-words/675739/36 "2013-12-08T00:52:41Z")
“Moose. Indian.” –Thoreau ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2013, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-final-words/675739/37 "2013-12-08T01:10:16Z")
My favorite is what will undoubtably be Mankind’s Final Words; “Hold my beer.” ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2013, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-final-words/675739/38 "2013-12-08T03:23:23Z")
“Let’s see if there’s one in here for me!” > **[Jon-Erik Hexum](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon-Erik_Hexum)** > > Jon-Erik Hexum (/ˈhɛksəm/; November 5, 1957 – October 18, 1984) was an American actor and model, known for his lead roles in the TV series Voyagers! and Cover Up, and his supporting role as Pat Trammell in the biopic The Bear. He died by an accidental self-inflicted blank cartridge gunshot to the head on the set of Cover Up. > Hexum was born in Englewood, New Jersey, in 1957 to Thorleif Andreas Hexum, a Norwegian immigrant, and Gretha Olivia (Paulsen) Hexum, a Minnesota-born American of Norwegian ... ---
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“I had the right of way.” ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2013, 10:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-final-words/675739/40 "2013-12-08T10:15:32Z")
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