Morsels: Famous Last Words
I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
- Nathan Hale (quoting a recent play)
I have been dying for twenty years, now I am going to live.
- James Burns
I don't feel good.
- Luther Burbank
And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts, in living color, you're about to see another first - an attempted suicide.
- Chris Hubbock, newscaster who shot herself on live, prime-time news, in 1970.
Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life.
- Charles Frohman (Before sinking with the Lusitania)
Go away... I'm alright.
- H.G. Wells
...the fog is rising.
- Emily Dickinson
Applaud friends, the comedy is over.
- Ludwig van Beethoven
Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
- Pancho Villa
Wheeeeeeeeeee! (Sitting up in bed, before dying)
- My great-grandmother. She came in the with Halley's Comet, knew she would leave with Halley's Comet, and lived well in between.