Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
(John Adams, dying words)
Now comes the mystery.
(Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887)
I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
(Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words)
I don't feel good.
(Luther Burbank, dying words)
Goodbye, Everybody!
(Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship
voyage.)
Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
(Georges Danton, to his executioner)
...the fog is rising.
(Emily Dickinson, dying words)
The nourishment is palatable.
(Millard Fillmore, dying words)
Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
(Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying)
More light!
(Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words)
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