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"It's very beautiful over there."
(Suffering from re-occuring pneumonia and semi-unconscious, his wife, Mina, ask "Are your suffering?" to which he replied, "No, just waiting." Then looked out of his bedroom window and softly spoke his last words.) |
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Thomas A Edison |
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"I've always loved my wife, my children, and my grandchildren, and I've always loved my country. I want to go. God, take me"
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Dwight David Eisenhower |
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"Never felt better."
(Became ill after returning from a USC-UCLA football game. A doctor prescribed bed rest, a restricted diet, and nursing care. After sleeping most of the next morning, his nurse asked, "How are you?") |
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Douglas Fairbanks Sr |
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"My dear Schur, you remember our first talk. You promised to help me when I could no longer carry on. It is only torture now, and it has no longer any sense."
(After years of suffering from cancer of the jaw, he convienced his personal physician to give him several large doses of morphine for the pain. He fell into a coma and died the next day.) |
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Sigmund Freud |
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"Swain, can't you stop this (pain)? Swain!"
(Dying from a gunshot wound.) |
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James A Garfield |
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"Win one for the Gipper!"
(Dying from pneumonia after a serious throat infection, speaking to his coach, Knute Rockne.) |
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George Gipp |
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"I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."
(Hanged after being arrested for spying on the British in New York City.) |
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Nathan Hale |
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"This is a mortal wound, doctor."
(Said to the doctor and being shot in a dual with AAron Burr.) |
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Alexander Hamilton |
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"Don't turn down the light. I'm afraid to go home in the dark."
(Song lyrics) |
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O Henry |
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"Leave the shower curtain on the inside of the tub."
(Deathbed words of wisdom for the world.) |
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Conrad N Hilton |
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