Here’s another post that’s part of Randy Elrod’s Watercooler Wednesdays.

I recently ran across a list of famous last words on Wikiquote. Check ‘em out here.

I don’t want to seem morbid, but I think it’s interesting to see what people choose (or sometimes just happen) to have as their last words spoken on earth. Some of the quotes are funny, some are sobering, some might even make you to think a bit.

Here are a couple that stood out to me as funny or inspirational (taken from the link above):

• “Am I dying, or is this my birthday?” - Lady Nancy Astor
• “I would rather be a servant in the House of the Lord than to sit in the seats of the mighty.” - Alben W. Barkley, former Vice President of the United States
• “I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis.” - Humphrey Bogart
• “I just wish I had time for one more bowl of chili.” - Kit Carson, American frontiersman
• “Thank God. I’m tired of being the funniest person in the room.” - Del Close, improviser, teacher and comedian
• “But how the devil do you think this could harm me?” - Denis Diderot, French encyclopedist, upon being warned by his wife not to eat too much
• “It’s very beautiful over there.” - Thomas Edison
• “I shall be with Christ, and that is enough.” - Michael Faraday
• “I’d hate to die twice. It’s so boring.” - Richard Feynman
• “Dying is easy, comedy is hard.” - George Bernard Shaw
• “It must have been the coffee.” - Jack Soo, Actor and Comic
• “Jesus, I love you. Jesus, I love you.” - Mother Teresa

Check out the longer list if you get a chance… Have any favorites? Which ones? What do you like about them? :o) Any hopes about what your last words might be?