1. Doc Holliday, Val Kilmer character/actual gunslinger

2. Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian

3. Jack Daniel, the whiskey guy

4. James French, convincted murderer

5. Graham Chapman, Monty Python member

6. Karl Marx, commie guy
As he lay dying of bronchitis and pleurisy, his housekeeper asked if he had any last words – and he gave one of the most ironic quotes possible.
7. Roald Dahl, author of James and the Giant Peach and The BFG
The real humor in famous children’s book author Roald Dahl’s final words being a swear word isn’t just that by itself. You see, Roald Dahl’s final words were ALMOST “I’m not frightened. I will just miss you all so very much.” He was seemingly unconscious after that, so a nurse tried injecting him with morphine to help ease whatever pain he might be feeling. But the prick of the needle was felt, he yelled out “OW, FUCK!”, and then eased on to the great beyond.
8. Georges Danton, French revolutionary
While one of the architects of the French Revolution, he was guillotined nonetheless during the Reign of Terror, as some had accused him of being too lenient towards allies of the monarchy. As he was being prepped for execution, he said “My only regret is that I am going before that rat Robespierre.” His actual last words, however, were spoken directly to his executioner, right before the blade fell. And it was true! Pretty good head.
9. Alex, a parrot
To be fair, Alex wasn’t just any parrot – it was an African grey parrot who animal psychologist Irene Pepperberg ran a multi-decade experiment upon, testing the language skills and capacity for learning in birds. Alex was said to have the intelligence of a 5 year old human child at the time of his death, and is the only non-human to have ever asked an existential question (he asked what color he was). His final words (“You be good. See you tomorrow. I love you.”) were the same words he would say to Pepperberg at the end of each day. Awwwww.
10. George Appel, convicted murderer
What is it about convicted murderers being put to death by electrocution and making gruesome, food-related puns about how dead they’re about to be? Like James French, George Appel was sitting in the electric chair when he decided to make a well-thought out quip his final words on this earth. At least he had a sense of humor about being zapped to death.
11. Dylan Thomas, famed poet

12. John Barrymore, legendary drunk actor

13. Frank “Tight Lips” Gusenberg, mobster

14. Walt Disney, mouse inventor

14 People Whose Last Words Will Live On Forever
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““The Soldier,”
If I should die, think only this of me:
That there’s some corner of a foreign field
That is forever England. There shall be
In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,
Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,
A body of England’s, breathing English air,
Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.
And think, this heart, all evil shed away,
A pulse in the Eternal mind, no less
Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given,
Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;
And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,
In hearts at peace, under an English heaven”
by Rupert Brooke (1887-1915), an English officer who died of a septic mosquito bite on the way to the front.
Always loved that poem and the sad story behind it.
Thanks for sharing that.