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.)
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