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Last Words (Intellectuals)
Replies: 23Last Post Nov. 17, 2008 12:00pm by lisma
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Event Horizon


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non of you will ever say those things. It's nice to romanticize about them, but in all likelihood you will be either too tired to speak or too out-of-it.

I mean, don't get me wrong, I think its fun to think about cool things to say before you die, but the truth is that you'll likely say nothing, or if you do, it will likely not be as majestic or clever as you all imagine.

I'll save thinking about it until the time comes

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful.It's the transition
that's troublesome.
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Quote: from Event Horizon at 9:38 pm on Nov. 16, 2008

non of you will ever say those things. It's nice to romanticize about them, but in all likelihood you will be either too tired to speak or too out-of-it.

I mean, don't get me wrong, I think its fun to think about cool things to say before you die, but the truth is that you'll likely say nothing, or if you do, it will likely not be as majestic or clever as you all imagine.  

I'll save thinking about it until the time comes


Goodbye is really simple. But there is always a chance of dying in sleep or dying so fast that you wouldn't get a chance to do anything. Which is maybe a better way to die.

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sure, obviously 'goodbye' is completely understandable --though, again, most deaths don't happen like: ...hmmm I'm about to die, "goodbye loved ones"... ehhhhh [dead].

but i mean things that are purportedly meaningful and clever are likely never to be uttered.

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Quote: from Event Horizon at 10:26 pm on Nov. 16, 2008

but i mean things that are purportedly meaningful and clever are likely never to be uttered.

Well, I agree on that. There is a really low chance that you will be able to exactly predict when your death is going to strike, therefore, your chance of saying what you have planned to be your last words is really slim.

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My last words would most likely be something along the lines of:
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"So long, motherfuckers!"

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Quote: from exceedinglyrare at 8:43 am on Nov. 14, 2008

Personally, I have a hard time really appreciating the significance of "last words." I know that, obviously, the last thing you say is the last thing you say, but I think the words that I'll use throughout the rest of my life will carry with them a great deal more meaning, particularly considering that if I die of old age in a hospital bed after a long illness, my last words may very well be "I really wish they'd served the red Jell-O after lunch" or something along those lines.  

I also have no intention and see no purpose in making a great speech before I die, unless I'm executed publically like Anne Boleyn. Really, it all depends on the circumstance. Knowing myself, if I happen to die of anything but old age, my last words will likely be something along the lines of "...oh shit."


I feel this way.  I also don't feel strongly about having to say something to people before they died, like "I wish I had a chance to tell ___ I love them" It sort of seems sensationalised to me. Though I can understand the feeling more or less.


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I would probably quote the first stanza of William Blake's Auguries of Innocence:

'To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour.'


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Quote: from Event Horizon at 3:38 pm on Nov. 16, 2008

non of you will ever say those things. It's nice to romanticize about them, but in all likelihood you will be either too tired to speak or too out-of-it.

I mean, don't get me wrong, I think its fun to think about cool things to say before you die, but the truth is that you'll likely say nothing, or if you do, it will likely not be as majestic or clever as you all imagine.  

I'll save thinking about it until the time comes


That was kind of my point. Unless you're being publically executed and know exactly when you're going to die, there's really no point to planning that sort of thing ahead of time, and they don't bear any real weight, anyway.

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I would simply say, I love you. I will see you soon.

I would want to leave the world with 'love' on the end of my tongue. I believe love is the strongest emotion. And I do not believe that death means 'the end' it could be the beginning, or the middle, but I am positive that I will see my loved ones again. And I would remind them that.

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