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I’m not unwell, I’m f**king dying.

Jeffrey Bernard

(1932 – 1997) British journalist

Death Last words

Are you happy? I'm happy.

Ethel Barrymore

(1879 – 1959) American actress

Last words Barrymore had been bedridden and awoke in the night and spoke these words to her maid. She fell back asleep and died several hours later without regaining consciousness.

Walter Pidgeon

William Henry Pratt (1887 – 1969) English actor

Last words As he drifted in and out of sleep on his final day. It confused and distressed his wife Evie since Karloff hadn't mentioned Pidgeon in years.

Oh, what's the bloody point?

Kenneth Charles Williams

(1926 – 1988) English comic actor & comedian

Last words This was the final entry in his diary.

Everything is an illusion.

(1876 – 1917) Dutch exotic dancer, courtesan & accused spy

Last words Spoken to a visitor before she faced a firing squad

I’m afraid I’m being an awful nuisance.

(1887 – 1964) English biographer, critic, novelist & poet

Death Last words

Hey, fellas! How about this for a headline for tomorrow's paper? 'French Fries'!

(c.1936 – 1966) American convicted murderer

Last words He shouted these words to members of the press who were to witness his execution in the electric chair.

I am curious to see what happens in the next world to one who dies unshriven.

Pietro Perugino

(c.1446/1450 – 1523) Italian Renaissance painter

Last words Giving his reasons for refusing to see a priest as he lay dying

Is it safe?

(1824-1856) doctor & convicted multiple murderer

Last words Before stepping on the gallows trapdoor

I think you're right, Wyatt. I can't see a god damn thing.

(1851 – 1882) younger brother of Deputy U.S. Marshals Virgil & Wyatt Earp

Last words Agreeing with Wyatt’s belief there is no life after death.

Boy, fetch my fiddle.

Rob Roy MacGregor

(1671 – 1734) Scottish folk hero

This is the happiest moment of my life.

(1859 – 1887) German anarchist

Last words At his execution by hanging

Don't make a mess of it – shoot straight, you bastards.

Harry 'Breaker' Morant

(1864 – 1902) Anglo-Australian drover, horseman, poet & soldier

Last words Morant was courtmartialed and executed by the British – charged with killing Boer prisoners.

Now comes the mystery.

Henry Ward Beecher

(1813 – 1887) American clergyman, social reformer & abolitionist

It has all been very interesting.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

(1689 – 1762) English aristocrat & writer

Don't ask me how I am! I understand nothing more.

Hans Christian Andersen

(1805 – 1875) Danish author & poet noted for his children's stories

I'm so bored with it all.

Winston Churchill

(1874 – 1965) British prime minister, politician, statesman & orator

Last words Before slipping into a coma and dying nine days later.

Only from the cold, my friend.

Jean-Sylvain Bailly

(1736 – 1793) French astronomer, orator & leader of the French Revolution

Last words His reply when he was heckled by a spectator who noticed that he was trembling while on the scaffold awaiting the guillotine.

Turn me. I am roasted on one side.

Lawrence of Rome

(c.225 – 258) a deacon & celebrated Roman martyr

Last words Lawrence was stripped and tied face down suspended over a bed of coals and slowly burned to death. In a cheerful voice this is how he responded when asked if he had any last request.

Thank God. I'm tired of being the funniest person in the room.

(1934 – 1999) American actor, improviser, writer & teacher

You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everyone dances with the Grim Reaper.

Robert Alton Harris

(1953 – 1992) American career criminal & convicted murderer

Last words Subject of dispute Was executed in the gas chamber at San Quentin State Prison