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19 Morbidly Awesome Last Words

These people went out like champs.

By packmule2

Published 11 years ago in People & Lifestyle

These people went out like champs, and their last words prove it.

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Kit Carson, pioneer

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Robert Erskine Childers, Irish nationalist (after shaking the hand of every man on the firing squad)

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Tallulah Bankhead, actress

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Nostradamus: "Tomorrow, I shall no longer be here."

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Giles Corey (while being crushed with stones after being accused of witchcraft)

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Carl Panzram, Serial Killer

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James French, murderer: (while being strapped in the electric chair) "Hey fellas! How about this for a headline for tomorrow's paper? French Fries!"

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Tom "Black Jack" Ketchum, murderer

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Before his assassination, someone said to John F. Kennedy, "You certainly cannot say that the people of Dallas haven't given you a nice welcome, Mr. President." Kennedy responded, "No, you certainly can't."

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James Brown: "I'm going away tonight."

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Marie Antoinette: "Pardon me sir, I did not do it on purpose." (after stepping on her executioner's foot)

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Che Guevara, revolutionary: "I know you've come to kill me. Shoot, you are only going to kill a man."

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Alexander II of Russia: "Home to the palace to die." (He said this to his guards after an anarchist detonated a bomb in his carriage. His guards took him to the palace, where he died.)

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Chief Sitting Bull (who led the natives to victory at Custer's Last Stand)

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Alexander the Great: "To the strongest!" (passing his empire to his strongest man, Krateros)

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Voltaire, philosopher: "Now is not the time for making new enemies." (While on his deathbed, Voltaire said this to a priest who asked him if he would like to renounce Satan.)

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French grammarian Dominique Bouhours: "I am about to--or I am going to--die: either expression is correct."

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John Quincy Adams: "This is the last of Earth! I am content!"

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Humphrey Bogart: "I should have never switched from Scotch to Martinis."

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