April 07, 2004

Famous Last Words. No, really. A site devoted to what famous people last uttered.

My favorite is Pancho Villa's: as he lay dying, surrounded by newspaper reporters, "Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something."

  • Sorry, this site is temporarily unavailable! You were saying...[mirrored link here please]
  • Man, geocities sites are really fragile.
  • Worked for me...but it's missing this one by Oscar Wilde: "Either this wallpaper goes, or I do."
  • although he wasn't famous, my high-school journalism teacher (i remained close to him all my life) died last year after fighting various cancers (brain, esophagus, stomach). his last words: "get me out of this!" i thought that reflected the situation nicely.
  • To bad it's down. I would like to have read that.
  • "Nonsense, they couldn't hit an elephant at this dist-." John Sedgwick, 1813 - 1864
  • Or Henrik Ibsen's classic last words, after a nurse told a visitor that Mr. Ibsen was feeling a little better: "On the contrary!"
  • thomcatspike & pyrrthon1, I can see it now. I've been looking around for a mirror site and can't find one.