# 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:** 11\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Agent\_Foxtrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Agent\_Foxtrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Foxtrot)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2013, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-final-words/675739/81 "2013-12-16T16:51:31Z")
Rodrigo Borgia’s (Pope Alexander VI) last words have always been unsettling to me: “I am coming; I am coming. It is just [_“just” meaning “appropriate”_]. But wait a little.” When looking back on his life, one has to wonder if he was speaking to angels or devils. ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2013, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-final-words/675739/82 "2013-12-16T17:04:49Z")
John Wilkes Booth, looking at his hands: “Useless, useless.” ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2013, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-final-words/675739/83 "2013-12-16T17:10:12Z")
Pete Holmes’ “Not today!” scenario gets my vote: [http://www.comedycentral.com/jokes/6s26qf/stand-up-pete-holmes--pete-holmes--funniest-way-to-die](http://www.comedycentral.com/jokes/6s26qf/stand-up-pete-holmes--pete-holmes--funniest-way-to-die) ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2013, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-final-words/675739/84 "2013-12-16T18:30:10Z")
Joan Crawford on seeing her maid praying: “Damn it, don’t you dare ask God to help me.” ---
**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 16, 2013, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-final-words/675739/85 "2013-12-16T19:39:29Z")
Anton Chekhov, after one last drink: “I haven’t had champagne in a long time.” Preceded by “Ich sterbe!” (“I’m dying!” in German.) ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2013, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-final-words/675739/86 "2013-12-16T19:40:46Z")
“Oh my!” Kirk\*, if you discount his own Trek novel. \*Fat Shatner version ---
**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 16, 2013, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-final-words/675739/87 "2013-12-16T19:42:28Z")
> [@panamajack](#): > > “I’m Pat fucking Tillman! Why are you shooting at me? I’m Pat Tillman!” > > - not 100% verified, but probably as best as we’re going to get. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUfj9qom6\_I](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUfj9qom6_I)😃 ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2013, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-final-words/675739/88 "2013-12-16T20:11:12Z")
“Avada Keda–” - Draco Malfoy, 15 April 2027 (Shortly after Ginny Potter blacked his eye, and immediately before learning it’s easier to say “Reducto.”) Actually, the first thing I thought when I saw the thread was Roy Batty’s final words. Apart from that all I can come up with is my mother in law’s last as she was dying in hospice: “Fuck.” _gasp/choke/gurgle_ Can’t beat that. ---
**Author:** ![Boulter\_s\_Canary](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Boulter\_s\_Canary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boulter_s_Canary)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2013, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-final-words/675739/89 "2013-12-17T23:41:13Z")
_I am going to the inevitable_. - Philip Larkin. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2013, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-final-words/675739/90 "2013-12-18T02:04:02Z")
“No matter what they say I done… I ain’t never had too much fun”. ---
**Author:** ![movingfinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@movingfinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/movingfinger)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2013, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-final-words/675739/91 "2013-12-18T08:21:00Z")
I think it was O. Henry who said, “I’m afraid to go home in the dark.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-final-words/675739.md?page=4)