Some of them are pearls of wisdom
“They couldn’t hit an elephant at this distance. […] All right, my man; go to your place.”[125] — General John Sedgwick (9 May 1864) at the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House shortly before being killed by enemy fire
What do you think I’m gonna do? Blow my brains out?" — Terry Kath (23 January 1978), of the band Chicago, just before putting a supposedly unloaded semi-automatic 9-mm pistol to his temple and pulling the trigger.
“Let all brave Prussians follow me!”— Field Marshal Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin (6 May 1757), at the Battle of Prague, immediately before being struck by a cannonball.
TREAT EVERY GUN AS LOADED! Dude obviously didn’t read the manual when he bought it.
what about this one
“Sergeant, the Spanish bullet isn’t made that will kill me.” — Captain Buckey O’Neill (1 July 1898), one of Theodore Roosevelt’s Rough Riders, just before being shot in the mouth prior to charge up Kettle Hill.[78]
Ok, but was it a Spanish bullet?
I always thought Philip Larkin’s last words - “I am going to the inevitable” - were very modest and moving.
Yeah, Thanos cribbed that shit hard.
Some of the best I’ve ever seen are Oscar Wilde’s: "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us must go.”
A creepy Wikipedia in its own right: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twilight_Zone_accident
Fun fact: That was one of the first few posts when this community started.
Just browsing through all the Roman statesmen and their last words. No matter what they say, it all so sounds so Shakespearean.
Very cool & creepy article but it includes fictional ones, too, like Jesus’s. Also, Let’s Roll is listed but might not have been any single person’s last words. (Ironically misspelled on the memorial)
