What would your last words be? I know mine wouldn't be as good as some of the last words by these iconic people of history:
"Kill me, or else you are a murderer."
Author Franz Kafka said these words as he was dying of tuberculosis in 1924. He was begging doctors for an overdose of morphine so he wouldn't have to suffer any longer. You might know this name from his book Metamorphosis about Gregor who turns into a dung beetle. It's an interesting satire on the life of a workaholic.
"I do not believe in my death."
Salvador Dali, Spanish painter, died in 1989. He's most well-known for his works The Persistence of Memory, Galatea of Spheres and the Metamorphosis of Narcissus.
"Party! Let's have a party!"
Thank you Margaret Sanger, I agree! Sanger was a woman's rights activist who changed the lives of women forever. In the 1900s Sanger was a birth control advocate, sex educator, writer and nurse. She died in 1966 of congestive heart failure almost a year after the Supreme Court Case Griswold v. Connecticut which legalized contraception in the US.
"Swing low, sweet chariot."
Harriet Tubman, an abolitionist and spy for the U.S. army during the Civil War, was known mostly for her role in leading slaves to freedom through the Underground Railroad and these were her last words.
"It's better to burn out than to fade away."
American singer, song-writer of the 90s band Nirvana, Kurt Cobain ended his suicide letter with these haunting words. He was succeeded by his wife Courtney Cox and his daughter Frances Cobain.
"Hey, fellas! How about this for a headline for tomorrow's papers? 'French Fries'"
James French was serving a life sentence in Ohio when he realized that life was a long time and suicide wasn't an option for him, so he killed his cellmate and was sentenced to death. French was the last person to be put to death by electric chair.
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