Sorry Malacandra, did that really happen? Or are you just joking?
If I’m lucid enough when I finally go some 40+ years from now (I plan to live into my 90’s, thank you), I’m totally going with the “I’m not dead yet. I feel happy!” bit from Monty Python. Likely the people in attendance, if any, will have no clue what I’m on about.
Edward Abbey: “no comment”
“All right then, I’ll say it: I’ve always hated Dante.” – Spanish poet and playwright Lope de Vega upon being assured that he was dying, 1321.
Chapters in law school textbooks often start with quotes from some famous legal scholar or jurist related to the chapter’s subject matter. Usually several very dry paragraphs. In my Evidence textbook, the above quote lead the chapter about the admissibility of dying declarations, instead of the usual longer selections. I still think it’s pretty funny.
From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity-Edvard Munch.
Had you fought like a man you need not have been hang’d like a dog-Anne Bonnie’s last words to Calico Jack.
This is my favorite, but I don’t know if it was real, or just in the movie. Doesn’t matter I guess.
What I’d like mine to be is “Grandma, is that you?” She’s the first person I want to see, if we do recognize loved ones.
I’m surprised that this hasn’t been mentioned “such is life” as they hung Ned Kelly.
I’m pretty sure it’s not Texas Across the River.
My favorite comes from French mathematician Thomas Fantet De Lagny
He died April 11, 1734, and in his last moments, he no longer knew the persons who surrounded his bed, and was very quiet and some wondered if he was dead already. One asked him “What is the square of 12?”
De Lagny replied instantly:
“144”
From: 1812 Chalmers’ Biography / L / Thomas Fantet De Lagny (1660–1734) [vol. 19]
That’s my personal favourite.
For me, I’m undecided. I’d like my last words to be something like, “Wow, that was so worth it” but it’ll probably be more like 'hey, watch this"
My last words will probably be “Oh, shit! Oh, shit! Oh, shit!” :eek:
I love the Norwegian’s last words and your innate ability to phonetically write it such that the dialect is impeccable. I am still laughing my head off. So typical of many folks who feel like there is always more work to be done; even as they lay dying.
“Oh, shit!”…numerous airplane pilots
W. C. Fields : “Goddamn the whole fucking world and everyone in it but you, Carlotta.”
My Grandma just passed away last week - about the last thing she said to the doctor was “If I don’t like it can I come back”.
“Viva Cristo Rey!” -“Long live Christ the King!”
“Dying is easy, comedy is hard.”
-Edmund Kean - 18th-19th century British actor. (Possibly apocryphal.)
Yeah, those guys were pretty stoic. And all business.
Dolores Hope: “Bob - we never discussed where you wanted to be buried.”
Bob Hope (after a suitable pause): “Surprise me.”