There are some people whose lives and works have stayed with us long after they themselves shuffled off this mortal coil.
So, of those that we admired so much in life, we expect, of course, something poignant and memorable to have been their final utterances upon this earth ... not always so !
I offer for your reading pleasure the famous (or, mostly not-so-famous) last words of some highly influential humans. Some funny, some sad, but, all in all, mostly not what one would have expected.
FAMOUS (or not so famous) LAST WORDS OF...
Nostradamus (Michel de Notre Dame) 1503-1566 ~ "Tomorrow, I shall no longer be here"
Archimedes (298-212 b.c.) ~ "Wait 'till I have finished my problem !"
Bankhead, Tallulah (1902-1968) ~ "Codeine . . . bourbon"
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827) ~ "Friends applaud, the comedy is over"
Bruce, Lenny (Leonard Schneider) (1925-1966) ~ "Do you know where I can get any stuff ?"
Dean, James (1931-1955) ~ "That guy's got to stop. . . . he'll see us"
Fairbanks, Douglas, Sr. (1883-1939) ~ "I never felt better"
Fields, W.C. (1880-1946) ~ "Damn the whole world and everyone in it but you, carlotta"
Leary, Timothy (1920-1996) ~ "Why not? why not? why not? why not? yeah"
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (1882-1945) ~ "I have a terrific headache"
Socrates (469-399 b.c.) ~ "Crito, I owe a cock to asclepius. Will you remember to pay the debt ? "
Wells, “H.G” (Herbert George) (1866-1946) ~ "Oh, go away. I'm all right"
Marx, Karl (1818-1883) ~ "Go on, get out !. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough !"