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THEIR PARTING WORDS

I WONDER IF ANYONE EVER REHEARSES OR PLANS HIS/ HER LAST WORDS?
OR ARE THEY ALWAYS, LIKE 99% OF LIFE, JUST AD-LIBBED?????

KURT COBAIN: "PLEASE KEEP GOING, COURTNEY. FOR FRANCES. FOR HER LIFE WILL BE SO MUCH HAPPIER WITHOUT ME. I LOVE YOU. I LOVE YOU."

GHENGIS KHAN: "LET NOT MY END DISARM YOU, AND ON NO ACCOUNT WEEP OR KEEN FOR ME. LET THE ENEMY BE WARNED OF MY DEATH."

PANCHO VILLA: "DON'T LET IT END LIKE THIS. TELL THEM I SAID SOMETHING."

JOHN QUINCY ADAMS (6TH U.S. PRESIDENT): EITHER "I AM COMPOSED" OR "I AM CONTENT". (ADAMS' FINAL WORDS ARE DISPUTED).

ETHAN ALLEN: "WAITING ARE THEY? WAITING ARE THEY? WELL, LET THEM WAIT."

CHE GUEVARA: "I KNOW YOU HAVE COME TO KILL ME. SHOOT, COWARD. YOU ARE ONLY GOING TO KILL A MAN."

MARIE ANTOINETTE: "PARDONEZ-MOI, MONSIEUR."

ANDREW CARNEGIE: "I HOPE SO". (HIS WIFE HAD JUST BID HIM GOOD NIGHT).

ARCHEMEDES: "WAIT TILL I'VE FINISHED MY PROBLEM". (DISPUTED)

NATHAN HALE" "I REGRET THAT I HAVE BUT ONE LIFE TO LIVE FOR MY COUNTRY." (OTHERS MAINTAIN HALE'S LAST WORDS WERE: "IT IS THE DUTY OF EVERY GOOD OFFICER TO OBEY ANY ORDERS GIVEN HIM BY HIS COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF."

GROVER CLEVELAND (22ND AND 24TH U.S. PRESIDENT): "I HAVE TRIED SO HARD TO DO RIGHT."

LEO TOLSTOY: "EVEN IN THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH, TWO AND TWO DO NOT MAKE SIX."

SIR WALTER RALEIGH: "STRIKE MAN, STRIKE." (SAID TO THE AXEMAN EXECUTIONER WHO WAS ABOUT TO BEHEAD HIM.)

THEIR FINAL WORDS

(SOMETIMES SERIOUS. SOMETIMES TOUCHING. SOMETIMES ENIGMATIC. BUT ALWAYS FASCINATING: SOME FINAL WORDS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE...........)

HUEY LONG: "I WONDER WHY HE SHOT ME?"

ADMIRAL NELSON: "GOD BLESS YOU, HARDY.:

CATHERINE OF ARAGON: "MINE EYES DESIRE THEE ONLY. FAREWELL."

ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL: "NO." (IN RESPONSE TO HIS BELOVED WIFE, MABEL, WHOM HE WAS MARRIED TO FOR 45 YEARS, AFTER SHE SAID, "DON'T LEAVE ME.")

LUTHER BURBANK: "I DON'T FEEL GOOD."

SITTING BULL: "I AM NOT GOING! COME ON! COME ON! TAKE ACTION! LET'S GO!"

P.T. BARNUM: "HOW WERE THE CIRCUS RECEIPTS AT MADISON SQUARE GARDENS?"

BILLY THE KID: "WHO WAS IT?"

JOHN JACOB ASTOR (MILLIONAIRE WHO DIED BY GIVING UP HIS LIFEBOAT SEAT ON THE TITANIC): "THE LADIES HAVE TO GO FIRST.....GET IN THE LIFEBOAT, TO PLEASE ME....GOODBYE DEARIE, I'LL SEE YOU LATER."

DUTCH SCHULTZ (AMERICAN GANGSTER): "MOTHER IS THE BEST BET."

PABLO PICASSO: "DRINK TO ME."

SAL MINEO: "OH GOD. NO! HELP! SOMEONE HELP!" (AFTER BEING FATALLY STABBED)

ALEXANDER THE GREAT: "TO THE STRONGEST."

H.G. WELLS: "GO AWAY. I'M ALRIGHT."