Sooner or later it happens to all of us.The time comes for us to draw our last breath and pass from this life into the next.Over the years history has recorded some fascinating "Famous Last Words"...Here are a few.
"I've never felt better".Douglas Fairbanks,Sr.,actor.
"Iam about to----or I am going to-----die;either expression is correct".Dominique Bouhours,French Grammarian.
"Don't let it end like this.Tell them I said something."Pancho Villa,Mexican Revolutionary.
"All my possessions for a moment of time!"Elizabeth 1,Queen of England.
"Everybody has got to die,but I have always believed an exception would be made in my case.Now what?"William Saroyan,Pulitzer Prize winning author/playwright.
"Oh my poor soul,what is to become of you?Where do you go?"Cardinal Mazarin.
"Up until this time,I thought that there was no God,neither Hell.Now I know and feel that there are both,and that I am delivered to perdition by the righteous judgment of the Almighty".Sir Thomas Scott,Chancellor of England.
"I die hard,but I am not afraid to go".George Washington,President of the United States.
I am still in the land of the dying,I shall be in the land of the living soon".John Newton,slave-trader-turned-pastor and hymn-writer.
These words were expressed by men and woman standing on the very threshold of eternity.Some were prepared.They had made their peace with God.But others were completely caught off guard.They were not ready to go.Their last moments were filled with uncertainty--even fear and dread.
Do you know of other famous last words and or what yours might be?
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