Looking for Alaska, anyone? discussion

here is a place where you can discuss your famous last words, whether they be from the book itself, or anyone's last words. enjoy(:

i dont know anyones last words and i dont think anyone should.... and its not really a happy thing either. if you know someones last words. unless you didnt know them. sorry i dont mean to be a downer. im gonna look up somes last words and post another comment

"Pardonnez-moi, monsieur. Je ne l'ai pas fait exprès." translated as "Pardon me, sir. I did not do it on purpose." -Marie Antoinnette, as she approached the guillotine about to be beheaded, she accidentally stepped on the foot of her executioner.

"Tomorrow, I shall no longer be here." -Nostradamus, and quite possibly the most accurate statement ever spoken. It can be thought of in the literal sense and the hypothetical sense, and says so much about the world and how it thinks. One day someone can be a huge star, the next no one remembers their name.

"Don't cry we all die" my uncle said when he saw my mother crying on his death bed.

Albert Abraham Michelson was the first person to measure the speed of light and was the first American to win a Nobel Prize for physics. Even as he was dying at age 78, he was measuring light. He wrote in his log: “The following is a report on the measurement of the velocity of light made at the Irvine Ranch, near Santa Ana, California, during the period of September 1929 to—.” He died in the middle of his sentence talking about the speed of light.

Johnny Ace, an R&B singer, died in 1954 while playing with a pistol during a break in his concert set. His last words were, “I’ll show you that it won’t shoot.”