Subject: Death (Page 15)

My uncle's dying wish – he wanted me on his lap; he was in the electric chair.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor
Death Relationships

It is my last wish to be buried sitting up.

(1908 – 1989) American actress of film, television & theater
Death Situations

I feel nothing except a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.

(1657 – 1757) French author
Last words

My design is to make what haste I can to be gone.

(1599 – 1658) English military & political leader
Last words

You be good. See you tomorrow. I love you.

African Grey Parrot (1976 – 2007) subject of a thirty-year experiment by animal psychologist Irene Pepperberg
Last words

Proof that we don’t understand death is that we give dead people a pillow.

(1954 – ) comedian & television actor
Death

I want nothing but death.

(1775 – 1817) English novelist
Last words

I hope you go before me because I don’t want you singing at my funeral.

(1918 – 2002) Irish comedian, writer, musician, poet & playwright
Death Entertainment

Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow.

(1955 –2011) business magnate, co-founder & CEO of Apple
Last words

Funeral: A pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief by an expenditure that deepens our groans and doubles our tears.

Death Definitions

I am off in search of the great perhaps.

(c.1494 – 1553) French Renaissance writer, doctor, monk & Greek scholar
Last words

This is on me.

(1893 – 1967) writer, humorist & poet
Death

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet
Communication Death Speech

Kill: To create a vacancy without nominating a successor.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist
Death Definitions Killing

This is too tight.

(1823 – 1865) Swiss-born Confederate officer in the American Civil War
Last words

The good Lord never gives you more than you can handle… unless you die of something.

(1935 – ) American cartoonist
Beliefs Death God Life Problems

Marriage can be viewed as the waiting room for death.

(1963 – ) Canadian comedian, actor, screenwriter & film producer
Death Marriage

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

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

Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure.

(1909 – 1959) Australian-born American actor
Death Life Money

In keeping with Channel 40's policy of bringing you the latest in blood and guts and in living color, you are going to see another first –- attempted suicide.

(1944 – 1974) American television news reporter
Last words

Surprise me.

(1903 – 2003) English-born American comedian & actor
Last words