...He looks at Wikipedia.
Wikiquote, to be more specific. These are some pretty sweet last words from people on their death beds.
- I'm bored with it all.
- Who: Winston Churchill, before slipping into a coma and dying nine days later.
- Thank God. I'm tired of being the funniest person in the room.
- Who: Del Close, improvisor, teacher and comedian, died 1999.
- Where is my clock?
- Who: Salvador Dali
- Hurrah for anarchy! This is the happiest moment of my life
- Who: George Engels, anarchist, union activist
- Shouted before his execution at the gallows.
- I'd hate to die twice. It's so boring.
- Who: Richard Feynman
- Hey, fellas! How about this for a headline for tomorrow's paper? 'French Fries'!
- Who: James French.
- Notes: French, a convicted murderer, was sentenced to the electric chair. He shouted these words to members of the press who were to witness his execution.
- Kiss my ass.
- Who: John Wayne Gacy
- Note: Those were Gacy's last words before being executed by lethal injection.
- LSD, 100 micrograms I.M.
- Who: Aldous Huxley To his wife. She obliged and he was injected twice before his death.
- The bastards got me, but they won't get everybody.
- Who: Alexander Litvinenko, whistleblowing former Russian spy was poisoned in a London sushi bar. Said in an interview on November 23, 2006, hours before his death. (The Times, November 24, 2006)
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