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I was reading about Hugo Chávez earlier and saw that his last words are claimed to be "Yo no quiero morir, por favor no me dejen morir" (I don't want to die. Please don't let me die). It struck me that for such an aggressive, confident person his last words were sad and full of fear.

Have you been struck by anyone's last words, whether they be sad, funny or anything really?
 
An uncle of mine, always wanted his head stone epitaph to read
"Under this sod lies another"

His close family compromised and put it on the "service sheet"
When the time came.

It makes me smile even now, when I think about it.
 
I've been burdened with the "last words" and not just the once either. A good few years ago now I was first to arrive at a good friends crash site, he was in some state after being thrown from the car and I wouldn't even want the images in my head at this moment in time to be in a horror movie, although what he said does make me laugh now...not at the time. With the tiny bit of energy he had he looked up and toward his car that was wrapped round a tree, he turned to me and said "it was that damn deer again, or so my insurance will hear anyway".

He died before the ambulance even got there and I still remember that night horribly well. I won't even drive down that road because it gives me flashbacks.
 
Not so much last words but I remember the last time I saw one of my Granddad's before he died. Funnily enough it's the second time today I've referenced him on here today......

He was 65 years old, 5ft 4in tall and weighed around 24st, he had been seriously overweight since his 50s and was given lots of warning to lose weight due to the innevitable consequences.

He'd always struck me as a fearless, stubborn man (although I found out after his death that he used to knock my nan and one of my uncles about) but the last time I saw him in hospital where his lungs & heart had basically had enough and were in the process of shutting down, the fear in his eyes was just overwhelming.

He didn't say anything to me but I could just see so much regret, he knew that he could have probably helped himself but did nothing.
 
Not quite his last words, but Spike Milligans Epitaph - Dúirt mé leat go raibh mé breoite. - I told you I was ill !

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Rapscallion said:
Not quite his last words, but Spike Milligans Epitaph - Dúirt mé leat go raibh mé breoite. - I told you I was ill !

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I've often wondered if the missing "raibh", alters the meaning at all, as it's not on the stone.
Gaelic's a beautiful lanuguage.
 
Major John Sedgwicks last words at a US civil war skirmish "They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance."
 
Before he went to Afghanistan my freind jamie told me " If I die out there I want you to tell my brother in law I buried £5k in krugerands in a biscuit tin under his front lawn"

Naturally I was like " You buried £5k under your brother in laws front lawn ??? WTF "

and he grinned and said " Of course I didn't , but he's an arse hole and it will serve him right " :ROFLMAO:

Fortunately Jamie made it back so I didnt have to actually put this into practice ;)
 
I'll shift the double letters a key to the right!!!

I've always (well, since I discovered it) liked Nikos Kazantzakis's (author of Zorba the Greek and the Last Temptation of Christ among many other works) epitaph and have it tattooed (in his script) on my right upper arm. Translates as "I fear nothing, I hope for nothing, I am free."
 
our freind baz who died in Iraq in 2003 left a final letter for Jamie (one of those to be opened in the event of my death ones) which opened

"Do not stand at my grave and weep ......get wasted and pick up chicks instead ! "

And more recently my freind kimmo who died of leukemia sent a final good bye email when he knew he was terminal which finished

" if you remember me and feel like crying think of the happy times and smile instead"
 
Not so much last words though they could have portended what was to come?

In the late 60's I was in A&E waiting to have a minor fracture (could have been a cut needing stitches...too long ago now) attended to.......unlike today's mega busy departments it was quiet and I could hear a nearby conversation in another curtained off cubicle.

There was a female voice (the patient) who greeted the attending doctor with "I know who you are" the doctor replied with who am I then. She simply said you are the psychiatrist.....turns out as I gleaned she was an attempted suicide and the words that have stuck in my head all these years were what she told him as to why she had tried to take her own life.

"Life is but a sweet moment of joy but death is an untold of dream"

To this day I have no idea if it was a quote or something she had thought of herself? Having said with Google I could have searched but never have!
 
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Oh s##t!

uh Oh

look out!

Nice doggy

What does this button do?

This doesn't taste right

Trust me, I know what I'm doing

Of course it's safe!

Wheeeeeeeeee!

I CAN FLY!
 
Of course the most famous last words in history are

"I do"
 
viv1969 said:
I've often wondered if the missing "raibh", alters the meaning at all, as it's not on the stone.
Gaelic's a beautiful lanuguage.
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Leaving raibh out alters it to I told you I'm sick as opposed to I told you I was sick. That's using Goole Translate anyway.
 
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