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The Last Words Spoken By Famous People (22+ Pics)
Knowing the last words that someone spoke can sometimes throw light on their character or on the circumstances in which they died. You can't help but feel that some of the last words of the famous people on this list encapsulate their personas.
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(h/t: imgur)#1 Todd Beamer Was A Passenger On United Flight 93, September 11, 2001. These Are His Last Recorded Words At The End Of A Cell Phone Call Before Beamer And Others Attempted To Storm The Airliner's Cockpit To Retake It From Hijackers. The Plane Crashed Near Shanksville, Pennsylvania
#2 Jimi Hendrix Wrote This In A Poem Found Next To Him On His Deathbed. This Was The Final Sentence In The Poem
Don't really understand this, but kinda cool for somebody's last words!
#4 Leonardo Da Vinci
#6 Ludwig Van Beethoven
according to wikipedia that's not even remotely true. He supposedly said something like "too bad, too bad, it's too late" - cause he couldnt drink the last wine delivery anymore.
#7 Charlie Chaplin Said This After A Priest Reading Him His Last Rites Said "May The Lord Have Mercy On Your Soul"
#11 T.S. Eliot Was Only Able To Whisper One Word As He Died: “Valerie,” The Name Of His Wife
#13 Joe Dimaggio Talking About His Former Wife, Marilyn Monroe
#15 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Died At Age 71 In His Garden. He Turned To His Wife And Said, “You Are Wonderful,” Then Clutched His Chest And Died
#19 Ernest Hemingway Said This To His Wife Before Committing Suicide
those who commit suicide are both very brave and cowards....can you imagine being so afraid of life and what it brings,but being brave enough to pain your body for you to travell to unknown...suicide is a paradox
#20 R. D. Laing Suffered A Fatal Heart Attack In Public, And As People Gathered Around The Spot, Someone Said "Get A Doctor"
#21 John Jacob Astor IV And His Wife Were Travelling On The Titanic When It Struck An Iceberg And Began To Sink. Astor Gave Up His Seat Next To His Wife To Some Female Passengers And Spoke His Final Words To His Wife; He Was Later Found Floating In The Ocean, Dead
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My Grandmother said before she slipped away."Joe can I have a cuddle" . My Granddad had passed away 2yrs ago. It gives me comfort to think that she may have seen him in her last moments.
Honestly, this got tears in my eyes. Poignant and heart wrenching.
I struggle to believe that these were the last words of dying people.Way too long and if someone was gasping their last breath,they wouldn't be capable of saying much. These words may well have been spoken on their death beds but not with their last breath!!!
I agree with you, but we shouldn't take things too literally. An official final interview or last speech is as good as "final words" to me.
You don't know a lot about death, do you? Sadly, I am quite familiar with it.
Umm, where on earth did you get that all or even most of them were said in their final breaths? Some, perhaps, and it might come as a surprise, but not everyone gasps for a breath in their final moments. Last words means just that...last words, not "last sound uttered".
My Grandmother said before she slipped away."Joe can I have a cuddle" . My Granddad had passed away 2yrs ago. It gives me comfort to think that she may have seen him in her last moments.
Honestly, this got tears in my eyes. Poignant and heart wrenching.
I struggle to believe that these were the last words of dying people.Way too long and if someone was gasping their last breath,they wouldn't be capable of saying much. These words may well have been spoken on their death beds but not with their last breath!!!
I agree with you, but we shouldn't take things too literally. An official final interview or last speech is as good as "final words" to me.
You don't know a lot about death, do you? Sadly, I am quite familiar with it.
Umm, where on earth did you get that all or even most of them were said in their final breaths? Some, perhaps, and it might come as a surprise, but not everyone gasps for a breath in their final moments. Last words means just that...last words, not "last sound uttered".