I have always been fascinated with the last things people say before they die.  I remember being in the room when my grandmother died and she said, "Everyone, be quiet!  I'm listening to the singing."  The weird thing is that her sister said something similar before she died: "Can't you hear the angels singing?"  My mom and dad said that when they were with my other grandmother her final words were, "Theo, it's good to see you again.  You look so young.  I've missed you."  And my grandfather who my grandmother thought she saw, well his final words were, "Say the 23rd Psalm, bye."  I've heard plenty of other stories from friends and family about people saying strange things before they die.  Well here are some I've found and thought I'd share (some of you may recognize these from ones I posted on Tumblr, I decided to add more).

• Pardon me, sir. I did not do it on purpose. - Queen Marie Antoinette after she accidentally stepped on the foot of her executioner as she went to the guillotine.

• I can’t sleep. - J. M. Barrie, author of Peter Pan

• I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis. - Humphrey Bogart

• I am about to — or I am going to — die: either expression is correct. - Dominique Bouhours, famous French grammarian

• I live! - Roman Emperor, as he was being murdered by his own soldiers.

• Dammit…Don’t you dare ask God to help me. - Joan Crawford to her housekeeper who began to pray aloud.

• I am perplexed. Satan Get Out. - Aleister Crowley – famous occultist.

• Now why did I do that? - General William Erskine, after he jumped from a window in Lisbon, Portugal in 1813.

•  Hey, fellas! How about this for a headline for tomorrow’s paper? ‘French Fries’! - James French, a convicted murderer, was sentenced to the electric chair. He shouted these words to members of the press who were to witness his execution

• Bugger Bognor. - King George V whose physician had suggested that he relax at his seaside palace in Bognor Regis.

• It’s stopped. - Joseph Henry Green, upon checking his own pulse

• LSD, 100 micrograms I.M. - Aldous Huxley (Author) to his wife. She obliged and he was injected twice before his death.

• You have won, O Galilean. - Emperor Julian, having attempted to reverse the official endorsement of Christianity by the Roman Empire.

• No, you certainly can’t. - John F. Kennedy in reply to Nellie Connally, wife of Governor John Connelly, commenting “You certainly can’t say that the people of Dallas haven’t given you a nice welcome, Mr. President.
• Is everyone else all right ? -Robert Kennedy, whispered to his wife directly after he was shot and seconds before he fell into a coma. He died in the early morning hours of the next day.

• I feel ill. Call the doctors. - Mao Zedong (Chairman of China)

• Tomorrow, I shall no longer be here. - Nostradamus

• Hurry up, you Hoosier bastard, I could kill ten men while you’re fooling around! - Carl Panzram, serial killer, shortly before he was executed by hanging.

• Put out the bloody cigarette!! - Saki, to a fellow officer while in a trench during World War One, for fear the smoke would give away their positions. He was then shot by a German sniper who had heard the remark.

• Please don’t let me fall. - Mary Surratt, before being hanged for her part in the conspiracy to assassinate President Lincoln. She was the first woman executed by the United States federal government.

• Now, now, my good man, this is no time for making enemies. - Voltaire when asked by a priest to renounce Satan.
• Van Halen!  -Dimebag Darrell, bass player of Pantera and Damageplan, said minutes before he was shot and killed during a performance
• Oh, yes; it is the glorious Fourth of July. It is a great day. It is a good day. God bless it. God bless you all. He then lapsed into unconsciousness; he awakened later, and mumbled, Thomas Jefferson… -John Adams, some dispute that his final words were "Thomas Jefferson still survives" but people say his last words were unintelligible.  Oddly enough Jefferson died a few hours prior on the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence
• "Is it the Fourth?" [Doctor Robley Dunglison: "It soon will be."] "I resign my spirit to God, my daughter to my country."-Thomas Jefferson
• This is the last of Earth! I am content! -John Quincy Adams, who died on the floor of the U.S Capitol Building, as he had become a U.S. Representative from the 11th District of Massachusetts after his presidency.
• Is it not meningitis? -Louisa May Alcott, Alcott had been in ill health for many years and took a turn for the worse after she visited her father. She did not have meningitis. She may have died of mercury poisoning, the after-effect of an earlier treatment for typhoid fever. However she believed she had meningitis and is quoted as such.
• Waiting, are they? Waiting, are they? Well, let 'em wait! -Ethan Allen, stated after Allen was shot and a doctor told him, "General, I fear that the angels are waiting for you."
• Cold Harbor. June 3rd. I am dead. -unknown American soldier, This note was found on the body of a Union soldier, pinned to the inside of his jacket. Many Union soldiers placed final notes inside their jackets prior to leaving their entrenchments in the suicidal attack at the Battle of Cold Harbor on June 3rd, 1864
• Well, gentlemen, you are about to see a baked Appel. -George Appel, executed by electric chair in 1928
• The ladies have to go first. Goodbye, dearie. I'll see you later. -John Jacob Astor V, The accuracy of this report is disputed. Astor and his wife were traveling on the Titanic when it struck an iceberg and began to sink. As Astor prepared to enter a lifeboat with his wife, a group of female passengers appeared on deck. He gave up his seat and spoke his final words to his wife; he was later found floating in the ocean, believed to have been crushed to death by a falling funnel.
• I want nothing but death. -Jane Austen, in response to her sister Cassandra who had asked her if she wanted something
• Codeine…bourbon… -Tallulah Bankhead
• Now I can cross the Shifting Sands. -L. Frank Baum, Baum was referring to the Shifting Sands, the impassable desert surrounding the Land of Oz.
• No. -Alexander Graham Bell, while Alexander Graham Bell was dying, his deaf wife whispered to him, "Don't leave me." Bell responded by signing the word, "No."
• On that subject I am coy. -Aaron Burr, Burr was an atheist. His last words were a response to the efforts of his friend, Reverend P.J. Van Pelt, to get Burr to state the existence of a God.
• I just wish I had time for one more bowl of chili.  -Kit Carson
• Hello. -Graham Chapman, Monty Python's comedian, to his adopted son who had just arrived at the hospital.
• Why not? After all, it belongs to him -Charlie Chaplin, said this after a priest was reading him his last rites and said "may the lord have mercy on your soul".
• In keeping with Channel 40's policy of bringing you the latest in blood and guts and in living color, you are going to see another first -- attempted suicide. -Christine Chubbuck, 30 year old anchor woman who on July 15, 1974, during technical difficulties during a broadcast, said these words on-air before producing a revolver and shooting herself in the head (While she drew the gun on camera, the technicians quickly cut the video feed, but the gunshot could be clearly heard). She was pronounced dead in hospital fourteen hours later.
• You got me. -John Dillinger
• I don't care if I live or die. Go ahead and kill me. -Jeffery Dahmer, according to fellow prisoner Christopher Scarver, who admitted to beating Dahmer to death with a "preacher bar" (part of a weight machine), these were his last words.
• That guy's got to stop… He'll see us. -James Dean, said before dying in a car accident.
• I'll finally get to see Marilyn. -Joe DiMaggio, said about former wife Marilyn Monroe
• In einem kurzen Weilchen, meine Herren, sehen wir uns ohnehin alle wieder. Das ist das Los aller Menschen. Es lebe Deutschland. Es lebe Argentinien. Es lebe Österreich. […] Ich werde sie nicht vergessen. -Adolf Eichmann, a Nazi to the end
• Please don't leave me. Please don't leave me. -Chris Farley, said to a prostitute as she left his hotel room following a weekend-long drug and sex binge. When she turned around, Chris Farley had collapsed.
• Just don't leave me alone. -John Belushi, died from a drug overdose.  Farley was a huge fan of Belushi.
• Goddamn the whole fucking world and everyone in it except you, Carlotta! -W.C. Fields, Carlotta Monti was an actress and Fields' mistress
• Das ist nicht wahr! Ich werde in der Montur sterben? -Frederick William I of Prussia, translates as "That's not true.  I'm gonna die in this suit?"
• Mother, I'm going to get my things and get out of this house. Father hates me and I'm never coming back. -Marvin Gaye, Moments later, Gaye was fatally shot by his father, Marvin Gaye, Sr.
• Love one another.  -George Harrison, said to his family who had come to be with him during his final days
• Be inspired -Heavy D, his last message on Twitter
• Surprise me. -Bob Hope, spoken to his wife after she asked him where he wanted to be buried
• I'm tired of fighting! I guess this thing is going to get me. -Harry Houdini, Houdini is often said to have died after being punched in the stomach before having a chance to tighten his abdominal muscles. This is a fabrication. Houdini WAS punched in the stomach, however doctors agree such a blow could not have caused his appendix to burst, which is what happened and is the cause of his death.
• Don't worry, they usually don't swim backwards. -Steve Irwin, said when he was examining a Stingray in the Great Barrier Reef. It did, however, swim backwards and the tail pierced his chest. He died of bloodloss later.
• Let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees. -Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, Jackson was accidentally shot by his own men and, weakened by the injury, died from pneumonia.
• Miss, I got what I really went for. -Jeremy Wade Delle, shot himself in front of his classmates in 1991. Forever immortalized in the Pearl Jam song.
• We didn't commit suicide. We committed an act of revolutionary suicide, protesting the conditions of an inhumane world. -Jim Jones, his last statement recorded on a audiocassette made during the mass suicide on 18 November 1978.
• "I wish I was skiing." [Nurse: "Oh, Mr. Laurel, do you ski?"] "No, but I'd rather be skiing than doing what I'm doing." -Stan Laurel, said before dying of a heart attack
• Don't let me die, I have got so much to do. -Huey Long, "The Kingfish", American politician, Governor of and Senator from Louisiana
• We are holding our own.  -Ernest M. McSorely, McSorley was captain of the 729-foot Great Lakes freighter Edmund Fitzgerald, which was in a storm on Lake Superior. Soon after he said these words, the ship sank and all twenty-nine men aboard were killed.
• Die, my dear? Why, that's the last thing I'll do! -Groucho Marx
• Pee pee. -Freddie Mercury, asking to be helped to go to the bathroom
• We all get the same amount of ice. The rich get it in the summer. The poor get it in the winter. -Bat Masterson
• I should have asked for a stunt double! -Vic Morrow, said this before filming a challenging scene for "Twilight Zone: The Movie" with a helicopter. During filming, the helicopter lost control, and fell on the actors. He and one of the two children were decapitated while the other was crushed by the falling helicopter.
• I love you Sarah. For all eternity, I love you. -James K. Polk, said to his wife
• Kaputt… -Manfred von Richtoffen AKA The Red Baron, von Richthofen crash landed after being shot through the chest by Cedric Popkin and lived for 2 minutes until he finally uttered his final words.
• I don't believe that I'm going to be able to speak any longer... -Branch Rickey, he was in the middle of an acceptance speech at Missouri's Sports Hall of Fame when he collapsed in mid-sentence and never regained consciousness.
• I'm going over the valley. -Babe Ruth
• Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Linus, Lucy...how can I ever forget them... -Charles Schulz, from the final Peanuts comic strip released on February 13, 2000 (one day after his death).
• Shazbot. Nanu nanu. -Bon Scott, his last words as heard on the last track of Highway to Hell, Night Prowler. This phrase is taken from the show "Mork & Mindy." It was used by the aliens to say "goodbye." He died later by alchohol poison. Although these may not be his official last words, they were the last words heard by the public.
• Uh oh... -Michael J. Smith, crew member of the Challenger, 28 January 1986. Last statement recorded on the spacecraft's cockpit voice recorder, less than half a second before the shuttle disintegrated.
• It must have been the coffee. -Jack Soo, This was a reference to the running gag of his character Nick Yemana from the TV show Barney Miller having the reputation for making horrible coffee. According to friend and fellow cast-member Hal Linden, these were Soo's last words before being taken to surgery for cancer of the esophagus.
• Es lebe unser heiliges Deutschland! -Klaus von Stauffenberg, said before being shot by a Nazi firing squad for his role in an attempt on Hitler's life
• Relax — This won't hurt. -Hunter S Thompson, the final sentence of his suicide note
• Stop shooting! I’m Pat fucking Tillman, goddamnit! -Pat Tillman, former NFL player who left the NFL to join the Army in wake of 9/11.  He yelled at men who were firing at him from his own platoon shortly before being fatally shot
• Brothers! Brothers, please! This is a house of peace! -Malcolm X, two men were staging a fight in the audience he was addressing to distract attention from assassins who were drawing their guns to shoot him. Reportedly, Malcolm was dead before his body struck the floor.
• My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go. -Oscar Wilde, other sources say it was "These curtains are killing me, one of us has got to go." Others say, "Either the wallpaper goes, or I do."  Wilde said this in the Left Bank hotel where he died on November 30 1900, the wallpaper has since been removed and the room re-furnished in the style of one of Mr. Wilde's London flats but some say that he ordered a bottle of champagne and said, "I am dying beyond my means."