What would you like your famous last words to be?
Post your answer in the LEAVE A COMMENT section below. I’m not the boss of you, though. Don’t write anything for all I care! If you do, here’s hoping they aren’t your final documented words.
. . .here are my thoughts.
What would you like your famous last words to be?
Let’s be honest—you’re not going to be famous for your last words. Nobody will remember you for saying, “It’s better to burn out than fade away” [Kurt Cobain]. You will most certainly not declare, “I’m bored with it all” [Winston Churchill]. Would you even desire the luxury of choosing your final words? If you die of cardiac arrest while searching though egg cartons at the grocery store, you’ll not have the option of choosing your final words. Imagine a fellow shopper informing your next of kin, “Yeah, I was there right before he went down. He yelled, ‘Fuckin’ eggs! Fuck! Broken one in every fuckin’ carton! Mother—’” At the opposite end of the spectrum, capital punishment allows the opportunity to script and deliver your final words. But what exactly qualify as “last words”? A final, gasping inhalation can be misinterpreted as the word “A.” Do you really want your loved ones embarking on a Citizen Kane venture to determine what you meant by “A”? What did he intend to follow the indefinite article? Was he merely ascribing his death a letter grade? I’ll famously stick with that egg tantrum.