It occured to me a while back that most people don’t get a chance to leave a last earthy statement that has any significant meaning. I suspect most last utterances are along the lines of ‘Watch out for that car!’ or ‘Y’all, watch this!’.
While I never expect to better the very classy ‘Either that wallpaper goes or I do’ of Oscar Wilde, I am hoping that I can leave something worth quoting.
Currently my favorite candidate is ‘I wish I had spent more time at the office’, just to piss those people who claim that this has never been anybody dying words. Nothing like being the first.
“I wonder what this button…”
(Semi)seriously, I’ve thought about having this on my tombstone:
“It’s a beautiful planet, I’m glad I came.”
But I doubt I’ll have the presence of mind, or humor, to actually say it when the ‘last moment’ comes. More likely it’ll be something along the lines of "Aw Fuu[sub]uuuu[/sub]…
I’ve always wanted my last words to be decidedly random. Something along the lines of:
“I keep thinking it’s a Tuesday.”
or perhaps
“Those darn burritos keep repeating on me.”
As far as tombstones go, i think Blackadder had the right idea in Blackadder Goes Forth. He wanted the words “Here lies Edmund Blackadder - and he’s bloody annoyed.”
Finally, or a more pessamistic note, I can’t remember who is responsible for the quote, but it’s fairly poignant, it goes something like…
“Most people spend the last few seconds of their lives praying to a God they don’t beleive in for a miracle that won’t happen.”
I hope I have enough presence of mind to make sure my last word is “Rosebud…”. However, nobody I know IRL would get the reference. They’d all be asking “Who’s Rosebud?”.
