Last Words

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Don't know how many of you know of this site: it lists the last words of the executed, famous last word (by famous dying folk), and famous suicide notes.

Last Words

 

[cantdog]

What an odd thing to research. Thanks for the link, thirteen; I'm indebted.

 

[rgraham666]

Capital punishment: them without the capital get the punishment.
Executed in electric chair, Florida.
~~ John Spenkelink, d. May 25, 1979

That one made me chuckle.

 

[Emperor_Nero]

Very interesting.
But where were the final words of Socrates ... "I drank what?"

 

[JPMMURPHY]

Damn... anyone notice how many suicide notes came from authors and poets? Maybe I should reconsider that job sweeping floors at the cantina...

 

[Selena_Kitt]

Damn... anyone notice how many suicide notes came from authors and poets? Maybe I should reconsider that job sweeping floors at the cantina...

we can be a depressing bunch of folks...

 

[Guest]

Capital punishment: them without the capital get the punishment.

Unfortunately, if you look at the statistics, that is too true.

 

[cloudy]

I love this:

Either that wallpaper goes, or I do.
~~ Oscar Wilde, writer, d. November 30, 1900

 

[IrezumiKiss]

we can be a depressing bunch of folks...

That may be so, but every now and then someone like you makes an avatar of an ass like yours, and...suddenly my faith in humanity has been raised up and stood proud once again!

 

[Stella_Omega]

"Oh baby, what a great big faith in humanity you have!"

 

[buxxxom]

Interesting link.

 

[oggbashan]

I like the contrast between the reported last words of King George VI and his actual last words.

He was reported to have asked:

"How goes the Empire?"

What he really said was a reply to his doctors who suggested another convalescent visit to the coastal town of Bognor Regis:

"Bugger Bognor!"

Og

 

[jomar]

I didn't see the standard crashing pilot last words: "Oh, shit!"

 

[john-the-author]

Union General John Sedgwick, looking out over the Battle of Spotsylvania in 1862 is reported in Stephen Pile's "The Book of Failures" to have uttered the following last words:

"They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist--"​

A different source says he actually completed his sentence, turned, walked about three paces and only then was he dropped in his tracks by a .50 cal. Minie ball or the like... but, yuh know, it hardly makes a fuckin' difference under the circumstances, ne c'est pas?