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* "Thomas... Jefferson..." John Adams. Unknown to him, Jefferson had died only a few hours before.
** "Is it the Fourth...?" Thomas Jefferson, who died on July 4, 1826
* Prince Albert ([[
** His last words were "''Ein Kuss''" -- "a kiss" in German. He was far too sick at the end to put together a coherent sentence.
** Other sources say his last words were "I have such sweet thoughts", so it's really not known.
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* "I'll finally get to see [[Marilyn Monroe|Marilyn]]." Joe DiMaggio
* [[Walt Disney]] simply wrote down [[Kurt Russell]]'s name before his death. No one, including Russell, has any idea what it means.
* [[Benjamin Disraeli]], when asked if he wished to receive [[Queen
* "Don't, don't, don't! This could hurt someone!" -- Budd Dwyer, before shooting himself on live television.
* "Executioner, strike home!" - Earl of Essex.
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** May instead have been -- "I knew you were going to shoot me; I should never have been taken alive. Tell Fidel that this failure does not mean the end of the revolution, that it will triumph elsewhere. Tell Aleida to forget this, remarry and be happy, and keep the children studying. Ask the soldiers to aim well."
** Upon his capture by Bolivian troops, two days before his execution, he had said, according to some of the soldiers who shot him, "Don't shoot! I am Che! I'm worth more to you alive than dead!"
* "Glory hallelujah! Glory hallelujah! I am with the Lord." -- Charles Guiteau, assassin of James Garfield. Keep in mind, though, that these were just the final two lines of [https://web.archive.org/web/20071213183522/http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/guiteau/guiteaulastwords.html an entire poem] he had recited at the scaffold.
** He'd asked for an orchestra to accompany the recitation, but they drew the line there.
* "''Jag är så sömnig; och jag vill försöka vila mig litet grann.'' -- I feel so sleepy; and I want to try to rest a bit." -- Gustav III of Sweden.
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** Also Lord Palmerston's last words.
* "Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough." -- Karl Marx
* "Daddy flight. Save your auxiliary fuel tanks". [[Ace Pilot|Fighter ace]] Thomas
* "When I am dead and opened, you shall find Calais lying in my heart." -- Mary I of England. Calais had fallen to the French during her reign after being an English possession for over 200 years.
* "I die a true Scottish woman and a true French woman." - [[Mary Queen of Scots]].
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* "It's good." -- Spoken by the 12-year-old Sadako Sasaki, a casualty of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima famous for folding 1,000 paper cranes, on tasting her last meal, tea on rice.
* Patrick Sarsfield, Irish leader. After losing the Williamite war, he became one of many Irish mercenaries ("Wild Geese") and died at the 1693 Battle of Landen (part of the Nine Years' War). Supposedly, he cried out "Oh, that this were for Ireland!"
* American gangster [[wikipedia:Dutch Schultz|Dutch Schultz]] lingered for 22 hours after being fatally shot in 1935; during much of that time he was delirious and hallucinating, but a police stenographer transcribed almost every word he said. The resulting document is too long
* "Roger, go at throttle up." - Space Shuttle Challenger Commander Dick Scobee, the last communication from the shuttle before its break up during launch. Spoken to confirm the move to full power.
** "Uh oh." - Challenger's Pilot Michael J. Smith, the last statement captured by the crew cabin recorder.
* Union Major General [[Sedgwick Speech|John Sedgwick]] at the battle of Spotsylvania Court House said to his troops, "I'm ashamed of you, dodging that way. They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance." and then "All right, my man; go to your place." He was responding to a soldier saying he would rather duck from enemy fire then face it head on. His last words are frequently and famously misquoted to imply that he was shot in the middle of saying "distance".
* Socrates (contrary to claims otherwise in ''[[Real Genius]]''), after he was admistered hemlock, remarked to his friend Crito, Ὦ Κρίτων τῷ Ἀσκληπιῷ ὀφείλομεν ἀλεκτρυόνα. ἀλλὰ ἀπόδοτε καὶ μὴ ἀμελήσητε, ''Ô Kritôn, tô Asklêpiô opheílomen alektryóna, alla apódote kai mê amelêsête.'' ("Oh, Crito, we owe a rooster to Asklepios -- pay it to him, and don't forget about it!") Asklepios was the Greek god of medicine; it was customary for those who were healed to sacrifice a rooster to him.
* [[Operation Valkyrie]]:
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* "Does my face look strange?" - [[Robert Louis Stevenson]], just before collapsing from a cerebral hemmorhage
* The case of Nazi journalist Julius Streicher is quite interesting. According to Kingsbury Smith, as he was being brought to the scaffold at Nuremberg, he exclaimed "Heil Hitler!" and then "Purim Fest 1946". When actually asked if he had anything to say, he stated "The Bolsheviks shall hang you all one day". Then, before the fell to his death, he's reported to have said: "Adele, my dear wife...".
* The Texas Department of Justice has compiled a list of the [https://web.archive.org/web/20130415164205/http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/stat/dr_executed_offenders.html final statements of criminals before execution]. These are literally the final things those people said as they were being strapped to the lethal injection table -- not really all that famous, but still making a morbidly fascinating reading of what people actually say while facing imminent doom.
* "Please, let me keep working!" - [[Osamu Tezuka]], to the nurse taking his sketchpad
* "Now comes good sailing. Moose... Indian..." [[Henry David Thoreau]]
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* "Capitalism. Downfall." -- Christopher Hitchens.
* "Please leave the window open." -- [[Ernest P. Worrell|Jim Varney]]
* "Watch this!" is [[Truth in Television]]. There exists a book of all the deaths that have occurred at the Grand Canyon, and nearly an entire section of it is stories that start, "X had been drinking," and move on to, "X said, 'Hey, watch this!' and tumbled into the canyon."
* Historical: Jorge Chavez, a Franco-Peruvian who was the first man to fly over the Alps Mountains, suffered mortal injuries while trying to land on that flight. His last words: "Arriba -- siempre arriba." "Higher -- ever higher." This phrase is the motto of the Peruvian Air Force.
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