# Your Last Words? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 3, 2002, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-last-words/101600 "2002-04-03T16:07:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![RobGraham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8e8cbc/32.png) [@RobGraham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobGraham)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2002, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-last-words/101600/1 "2002-04-03T16:07:46Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2002, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-last-words/101600/2 "2002-04-03T16:24:01Z")
“I hid the fortune in the …” ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2002, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-last-words/101600/3 "2002-04-03T16:38:34Z")
“Thanks for the blowj…” ---
**Author:** ![Bumbazine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbazine/32/362_2.png) [@Bumbazine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbazine)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2002, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-last-words/101600/4 "2002-04-03T16:48:02Z")
“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]… ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2002, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-last-words/101600/5 "2002-04-03T17:18:31Z")
“Son of a whore.” “Shit.” “Aw, nuts.” “Aw, fuck.” Something along those lines. You see, I don’t want to be dead. ---
**Author:** ![RenegadeLibrarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f08c70/32.png) [@RenegadeLibrarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RenegadeLibrarian)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2002, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-last-words/101600/6 "2002-04-03T20:09:10Z")
Most likely: “Oops” I’m sure Andygirl would concur on this one 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![happyheathen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5e925/32.png) [@happyheathen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happyheathen)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2002, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-last-words/101600/7 "2002-04-03T20:35:54Z")
“Change the damned channel” 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![MamaHen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c89c15/32.png) [@MamaHen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MamaHen)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2002, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-last-words/101600/8 "2002-04-03T20:50:35Z")
“Not again” ---
**Author:** ![roadrunner70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19b73/32.png) [@roadrunner70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roadrunner70)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2002, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-last-words/101600/9 "2002-04-03T20:53:00Z")
They weren’t my last words, but should have been. _going through a curve on my motorcycle WAAAY too fast_ "Awwwww SHIT!!! This is gonna hur… ---
**Author:** ![roadrunner70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19b73/32.png) [@roadrunner70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roadrunner70)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2002, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-last-words/101600/10 "2002-04-03T20:54:01Z")
and keeping with the OP, note my sig… ---
**Author:** ![\_your\_name\_here](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/919ad9/32.png) [@\_your\_name\_here](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_your_name_here)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2002, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-last-words/101600/11 "2002-04-03T20:55:30Z")
“hey, that shouldn’t be on fi…” would be appropiate for me. i like fire but know my limits. maybe like this would be cool: “remember! don’t eat the bad cheese!” ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2002, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-last-words/101600/12 "2002-04-03T20:57:04Z")
Not quite last words, but rumour has it that Spike Milligan wanted this epitaph on his tombstone: “See! I told you I was sick.” ---
**Author:** ![idiotb0x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ecae2f/32.png) [@idiotb0x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/idiotb0x)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2002, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-last-words/101600/13 "2002-04-03T21:06:28Z")
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.” Have a nice day, y’all! ---
**Author:** ![whistlepig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/73ab20/32.png) [@whistlepig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whistlepig)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2002, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-last-words/101600/14 "2002-04-03T21:12:42Z")
I’ve had this one covered for years, thanks to my rafting buddies. Before each launch someone would say, “And if I die, I want you guys to tell every woman I ever went out with that her name was the last thing I said.” Whistlepig ---
**Author:** ![Batsinma\_Belfry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2002, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-last-words/101600/15 "2002-04-03T21:14:30Z")
“Time for Act II”. ---
**Author:** ![Jet\_Jaguar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jet_jaguar/32/3562_2.png) [@Jet\_Jaguar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jet_Jaguar)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2002, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-last-words/101600/16 "2002-04-03T21:16:56Z")
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?”. ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2002, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-last-words/101600/17 "2002-04-03T21:28:16Z")
Along the same lines as “Rosebud…,” I’ll have to find a toy from my own childhood to symbolize my lost innocence: “Stretch Armstrong…” Either that or, “Is that a real silencer…?” ---
**Author:** ![Skerri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@Skerri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skerri)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2002, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-last-words/101600/18 "2002-04-03T21:48:41Z")
Childish: Smack someone upside the head and say “Gotcha last!” Sweet: “Tell SO I love him!” Funny: “What’s that smell?” Vindictive: “I will haunt _‘name of bad ex’_ FOREVER!” with a wicked laugh before croaking. Peaceful: “It was good while it lasted.” If I had my choice and I knew when it was going to happen, I would probably choose the childish way out. Just seems more fun. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2002, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-last-words/101600/19 "2002-04-03T22:01:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by MamaHen \* > “Not again” ROTFL. Nothing like an really obscure HGTTG line to start the evening. Thanks **MamaHen**. “So this is it, we’re all going to die.” is just toooooo obvious. ---
**Author:** ![lno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2002, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-last-words/101600/20 "2002-04-03T22:06:03Z")
“Officer, those mustaches you all grow don’t make you look smart OR intimidating.” “Yeah? You and what army?” “I bet I could eat that.” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-last-words/101600.md?page=2)