# 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:** 17\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![kuroashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e9a140/32.png) [@kuroashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kuroashi)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2002, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-last-words/101600/41 "2002-04-04T09:12:02Z")
“Ip” was Jack Nicolson in _Easy Rider_ , no wait, he said “Neegh!” ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2002, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-last-words/101600/42 "2002-04-04T11:22:31Z")
If my wife has predeceased me, I’d kind of like “Tell the head nurse she was a great lay.” Ideally, I’d like to go out with Slim Pickins’ “Yee-hah!” from _Dr. Strangelove_, but I know my last words are far more likely to be “aw, shit.” ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2002, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-last-words/101600/43 "2002-04-04T16:21:11Z")
Somebody has (allegedly) already used: “Die, my dear Doctor? That’s the last thing I shall do”. ---
**Author:** ![RobGraham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8e8cbc/32.png) [@RobGraham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobGraham)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2002, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-last-words/101600/44 "2002-04-04T16:54:09Z")
My brother, who died of heart failure at the age of 30, was talking with a friend while sitting on the sofa in his home. Apparently the conversaion was about his girlfriend and her anxiety that he might leave her. Apparently his last words were" ‘What is she worried about? I’m not going anywhere.’ It still gives me chills. ---
**Author:** ![Mooney252](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7c8e57/32.png) [@Mooney252](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mooney252)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2002, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-last-words/101600/45 "2002-04-04T17:41:19Z")
“All in all, I’d rather be in Philadelphia.” ---
**Author:** ![NevarMore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7feea3/32.png) [@NevarMore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NevarMore)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2002, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-last-words/101600/46 "2002-04-07T17:56:32Z")
“I regret nothing!!” A friend of mine said it in a certain voice (very fast and higher pitched than normal). I usually say it when im about to take a fast curve, make the left turn on the yellow light, jumping those stairs on my bike, or other such risky behavior. ---
**Author:** ![Tinkertoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f19dbf/32.png) [@Tinkertoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tinkertoy)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2002, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-last-words/101600/47 "2002-04-07T19:26:25Z")
> [@](#): > > “If John Edwards tells you I’m sending a message from beyond the grave, he’s lying. Unless the message is, ‘John Edwards can kiss my decomposing ass!’” ROTFLMAO wipes away tears I shall return (ok maybe I won’t, but how will I know). ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2002, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-last-words/101600/48 "2002-04-07T19:53:41Z")
I’d probably subside with a soft “Oh [fashionable epithet of the time] …!” Or just go “Urk!” Just so long as I don’t hack off my “friends” enough for 'em to do [this.](http://www.snopes.com/photos/grave.htm) ---
**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2002, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-last-words/101600/49 "2002-04-07T20:14:51Z")
I’d probably write on my toumbstone “You’ll be at work on monday, I’ll be in eternal bliss.” And I’d have as my last words something very latin sounding but totally made up, just to make everyone there go and try to decode what I said. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2002, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-last-words/101600/50 "2002-04-07T20:26:44Z")
“Pull my finger.” Like to have that on my headstone. Always like to get the last laugh. ---
**Author:** ![P\_G\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/71c47a/32.png) [@P\_G\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P_G_B)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2002, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-last-words/101600/51 "2002-04-07T20:51:13Z")
“Tell my children my last thoughts were of them” ---
**Author:** ![Incubus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c68b51/32.png) [@Incubus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Incubus)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2002, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-last-words/101600/52 "2002-04-07T21:06:50Z")
“…Bury me at make out creek!” ---
**Author:** ![jmpride62](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c37758/32.png) [@jmpride62](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jmpride62)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2002, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-last-words/101600/53 "2002-04-07T21:13:38Z")
Shit, I hope all the new security measures don’t screw up my flight plans! ---
**Author:** ![NevarMore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7feea3/32.png) [@NevarMore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NevarMore)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2002, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-last-words/101600/54 "2002-04-07T23:57:46Z")
“OH SHIT! Flammable and inflammable mean the same thing!” ---
**Author:** ![butter\_pie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aca169/32.png) [@butter\_pie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/butter_pie)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2002, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-last-words/101600/55 "2002-04-08T01:59:01Z")
Not now…I wasn’t done yet. ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2002, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-last-words/101600/56 "2002-04-08T02:52:42Z")
I doubt I’ll have the clarity to whip out a memorable last line, but I’ll share this. About ten years ago I was driving home one night with my GF when we were broadsided. The guy never even tapped his brakes, and he hit us hard. As he hit, my GF said, “Goodbye.” ---
**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 8, 2002, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-last-words/101600/57 "2002-04-08T03:11:41Z")
[A man is burned to death attempting to rescue dog from boiling hot spring.](http://www.snopes2.com/horrors/freakish/hotsprng.htm) > [@](#): > > On 20 July 1981, 24-year-old David Allen Kirwan from La Canada, California, was driving through Yellowstone’s Fountain Paint Pot thermal area with his friend Ronald Ratliff and Ratliff’s dog Moosie. At about 1:00 P.M. they parked their truck to get out and take a closer look at the hot springs; Moosie escaped from the truck, ran towards nearby Celestine Pool (a thermal spring whose water temperature has been measured at over 200°), jumped in, and began yelping. > > Kirwan and Ratliff rushed over to the pool to aid the terrified dog, and Kirwan’s attitude indicated he was about to go into the spring after it. According to bystanders, several people tried to warn Kirwan off by yelling at him not to jump in, but he shouted “Like hell I won’t!” back at them, took two steps into the pool, and then dove head-first into the boiling spring. > > Kirwan swam out to the dog and attempted to take it to shore; he then disappeared underwater, let go of the dog, and tried to climb out of the pool. Ratliff helped pull Kirwan out of the hot spring (resulting in second-degree burns to his own feet), and another visitor led Kirwan to the sidewalk as he reportedly muttered, **"That was stupid. How bad am I? That was a stupid thing I did."** Famous last words indeed. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-last-words/101600.md?page=2)