'So Long, and Thanks For All The Fish'
The dolphins
Hitch Hikers Guide by Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001).
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"I don't want to go" - the Discworld's Death [:D]
"Now, my good man, this is no time for making enemies."
- Voltair on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan
I don't know whether those were his actual last words, or that he said them at all, since history has a way of obscuring these things, but i figured it fits here anyway.
"This is FUN!"-some random suicider whos name I can't remember
"you think I care...if I live or die? HAH!"-Dhaos,Tales of phantasia
quote:
Friends applaud, the comedy is finished.
~~ Ludwig van Beethoven, composer, d. March 26, 1827
There's some interesting info behind this. From the handful of people were with Beethoven when he died, so many different versions of what his last words were have came out. This was one , but there was also "I shall hear in heaven", "I feel as if up to now I had written no more than a few notes", "Pity, Pity - too late!" (this being in response to wine that was brought to him), "Is it not true, Hummel, that I have some talent after all?" (Hummel being a 'rival' composer), and "There, do you hear the bell? Don't you hear it ringing? The curtain must drop. Yes! My curtain is falling."
In a biography I've read (by Schauffler), it's stated that Beethoven's last words were in reality likely to have been regarding a feud that existed between him and another musician (I can't really remember who, but possibly a member of a string quartet that Beethoven had had earlier troubles with), and the words supposedly weren't exactly good-natured. But who would want to record words like that as Beethoven's last words? It was also said though that right before Beethoven died, he awoke from the delirium or sleep he was previously in and sat up in his bed, clenching his bed covers before laying back and then reportedly dying. I think that's more characteristic of him than probably any of the reported last words. He fought everything life threw at him, and was only finally taken by death, which was probably the end of decades of bad health caused by lead poisoning ( http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/10/17/beethoven.hair/ ).
Interesting stuff. Last words are always fun to read. [:D]
"Ah well I suppose it has come to this... Such is life"
Ned Kelly, Bushranger, Hanged Nov 11 1880
The National Transportation Safety Board recently divulged they had covertly funded a project with the U.S. auto makers for the past five years, whereby the auto makers were installing black box voice recorders in pick-up trucks.
This was done in an effort to determine, when accidents occurred, the circumstances in the last 15 seconds before the crash. They were surprised to find in 49 of the 50 states the last words of drivers in 61.2 percent of crashes were, "Oh, Sh**!"
Only the state of Montana was different, where 89.3 percent of the final words were: "Hold my beer and watch this!"
[:D]
James.
"Oh, my...!" Captain Kirk of the Star Ship Enterprise, as he gazed into the beyond, slowly closed his eyes and went off to explore it.
[:(]
[8D]
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Originally posted by atalanta
"Oh, my...!" Captain Kirk of the Star Ship Enterprise, as he gazed into the beyond, slowly closed his eyes and went off to explore it.
Actually were those not his last words when he finally did die in Star Trek Generations? Just not on a star ship. Oops is my geekiness showing? [:I]
"You killed me." - some guy who was shot by a police officer (never did get his name).
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Originally posted by fallnangel77
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Originally posted by atalanta
"Oh, my...!" Captain Kirk of the Star Ship Enterprise, as he gazed into the beyond, slowly closed his eyes and went off to explore it.
Actually were those not his last words when he finally did die in Star Trek Generations? Just not on a star ship. Oops is my geekiness showing? [:I]
I guess I've got some geekiness going on with myself as well. Big fan of Star Trek Next Generations.[:D]
oops I should have thought of a quote before posting...oh well.
Nay [;)]
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"You killed me." - some guy who was shot by a police officer (never did get his name).
nono its
"OFFICER IM NOT RESISTING YOU!" -random ethnic person in USA.
I've heard there's an epitaph on someones grave saying
"I TOLD YOU I WAS SICK!"
"Yes dear, that dress does make your butt look big"
-Random guy
"Look, a rattlesnake, let's poke it with a stick"
-Some kid named Billy
"What? You mean I shouldn't mix the two together?"
-Chem student
"I bet you $20 I can catch a bullet with my teeth"
-Drunk homeless guy
[8D]Now that I've had my fun, here are some serious ones:
Nostradamus (Michel de Notre Dame) 1503-1566
"Tomorrow, I shall no longer be here."
Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973)
"Drink to me!"
Cobain, Kurt (1967-1994)
"Frances and Courtney, I'll be at your altar
Please keep going Courtney,
for Frances.
for her life will be so much happier
without me. I LOVE YOU. I LOVE YOU" (from Kurt Cobain's suicide note)
It not that i'm afraid to die I just don't want to be here when it happens.
"Hang on..." (these are my "famous" last words so I've been told!)
"Did you wake me up?" (My Mum's last words.)
Sorry, I don't know any famous last words.
"I am the wind, the free wind" Kagura, Inuyasha
"I will not die. Kagura, unlike her, I am a true being!" Hakudoushi before being swallowed by the Kazzana, Inuyasha
"Goodbye my shadow, you who stood at the end of the path I did not choose, I wanted my own world, so I don't have any regrets, I will continue to choose this path." Mithos, Tales of Symphonia
"This is the END!" Bankotsu, right before Inuyasha cut him in half.
Heh, I guess I just like Inuyasha too much and we had Tales of Phantasia so I had to do ToS also.
My last words will be:
"Free Will, it's a grump."
Everyone is forgetting the best of all.
Et tu Brute
Although it may be fictional.
Does anyone know any very famous peoples last words, or famous last words. I have some; dont take me for freak who plays with the dead. I just find the character of a person is at its highest just before they die. And if that doesnt make sense, well im 13.
"Don't worry, it's not loaded." - Terry Kath, died when playing Russian roulette
"I'm Still Alive!" - Gaius Caligula, Roman Emperor with a knife in the back
"What dost thou fear? Strike, man, strike!" - Sir Walter Raleigh, beheaded
"I have a terrible headache." - Franklin Delano Roosevelt