Thursday, September 22, 2005

Famous Last Words and Quotes on Death



I feel certain that I'm going mad again. I feel we can't go thru another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices
Suicide note
~~ Virginia Woolf, author, d. March 28, 1941

Let's do it!
Executed by firing squad, Utah.
~~ Gary Gilmore, d. January 17, 1977

I did not get my Spaghetti-O's, I got spaghetti. I want the press to know this.
Executed by injection, Oklahoma.
~~ Thomas J. Grasso, d. March 20, 1995

The earth is suffocating . . . Swear to make them cut me open, so that I won't be buried alive.
Dying of tuberculosis.
~~ Frederic Chopin, composer, d. October 16, 1849

Does nobody understand?
~~ James Joyce, writer, d. 1941

"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 during broadcast.

"Life isn't fair. It's fairer than death, is all." — End of The Princess Bride

"Time marks us while we are marking time." — Theodore Roethke.

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And now, O priests, I take my leave of you; all the elements of being are transitory. Work out your salvation with diligence." -- Buddha



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