I wrote an article previously that reminds us of our death... It’s a topic people feel so uncomfortable talking about... All I hear, when I touch this topic is, why the hell to talk about death... We know it will come... I say... BLOODY YOU KNOW… BUT WHO THE HELL BELIEVES IT... May be I am sounding a bit cynical, but that is a fact… I pray for long life for all, but it is important to believe that you are going to die and it is best to do good deeds and not to think evil of others… Because... MEMENTO MORI... Remember... you must die...
Alone of the Gods Death has no love for gifts; Libation helps you not, nor
sacrifice. He has no altar, and hears no hymns; from him alone Persuasion stands apart
Following are the words I found... stated by the famous people on their death beds... To me, some looked helpless... some witty... some intelligent and some…. Well, you yourself figure it out…
ARCHIMEDES (212 BC... He was a mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer… Archimedes died during the Siege of Syracuse when he was killed by a Roman soldier despite orders that he should not be harmed . He said the following words on being ordered by that Roman soldier to follow him):
‘Wait till I have finished my problem.’
BOILEAU (1711):
‘It is a great consolation to a poet on the point of death that he has never written a line injurious to good morals.’
RAMEAU (1764): (to his confessor)
‘What the devil are you trying to sing, monsieur le cure? Your voice is out of tune.’
VOLTAIRE (1778): (as the bedside lamp flared up)
‘What? The flames already?’
But in wiki, it is mentioned that his last words were: "For God's sake, let me die in peace
ADAM SMITH (1790):
‘I believe we must adjourn this meeting to another place.’
BEETHOVEN (1827):
‘I shall hear in Heaven.’
And ‘Friends applaud, the comedy is finished.’
PALMERSTON (1865):
‘Die, my dear Doctor? – That is the last thing I shall do!’
DISRAELI (1881): (Queen
‘Why should I see her? She will only want me to give a message to Albert.’
GIDE (1951):
‘I am afraid my sentences are becoming grammatically incorrect.’
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS (in conversation some two weeks before his death in 1958, recorded by Sylvia Townsend Warner in a letter):
‘If I were reincarnated, I added, I think I would like to be a landscape painter. What about you? Music, he said, music. But in the next world I shan’t be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be being it.’
JAMES THURBER (1961):
‘God bless… God damn.’
GORONWY REES (1979): (to his son, Daniel)
‘What shall I do next?’
Lady Nancy Astor (When she woke briefly during her last illness and found all her family around her bedside)
‘Am I dying or is this my birthday?’
Dominique Bouhours (French grammarian)
I am about to -- or I am going to -- die: either expression is correct.
Joan Crawford (To her housekeeper, who had begun to pray aloud):
Damn it . . . Don't you dare ask God to help me.
Thomas Alva Edison (inventor):
It is very beautiful over there.
Douglas Fairbanks (Actor):
I've never felt better.
Ernesto "Che" Guevara (Facing his assassin, Mario Teran, a Bolivian soldier):
I know you have come to kill me. Shoot coward, you are only going to kill a man.
O. Henry (William Sidney Porter, writer):
Turn up the lights; I don't want to go home in the dark.
Louis XIV, (King of
Why do you weep? Did you think I was immortal?
Louise (Queen of
I am a Queen, but I have not the power to move my arms.
Eugene O'Neill (writer):
I knew it. I knew it. Born in a hotel room - and God damn it - died in a hotel room.
This one is smart:
Woody Allen
"I'm not afraid of death; I just don*t want to be there when it happens."
THIS ONE IS BY ME………………..
We do not know, when death would knock the doors of our lives, but one day it will… for SURE...
I know its a bit hackneyed, but view is a view you see... :)
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