“Lord, help my poor soul.”
Writer and poet best known for his Gothic fiction, spoke these last words on his deathbed to the physician attending him. He died at Washington College Hospital, the cause of death is a mystery.
“Oh, I am not going to die, am I? He will not separate us. We have been so happy.”
Novelist and poet, author of Jane Eyre, these final words were spoken to her husband Arthur. But God did separate them, and she died of tuberculosis together with her unborn child.
“I don’t think two people could have been happier than we have been.”
Influential author, this is the final line in the suicide note left to her husband. She drowned by filling her coat pockets with stones and walking into the River Ouse, her body was found three weeks later.
“My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One of us has got to go.”
Spoken jokingly shortly before his death, the impoverished poet and playwright died of meningitis in Paris.
“I want nothing but death.”
The famous novelist’s final words spoken to her sister Cassandra, welcoming death as she was in agonising pain from Addison’s disease.
“It’s very beautiful over there.”
Mysterious last words of the famous inventor and businessman, dying from diabetes complications at his home “Glenmont” in Llewellyn Park New Jersey.
“Oh wow oh wow oh wow”
According to his sister, these were the Apple co-founder’s final words after taking one long last look at his family. Steve Jobs died at his Palo Alto home in California due to complications resulting from pancreatic cancer. He was 56.
“I’m a fucking doctor”
The unconventional and controversial psychiatrist, responding to someone who said ‘Get a doctor’ as he was dying from a heart attack.
“Oh God”
The final words of the revolutionary and pacifist spoken after being shot three times in the chest by a Hindu nationalist. Mohandas Gandhi (also known as Mahatma meaning great soul) was with his grandnieces in the garden of Birla House (now Gandhi Smriti) in New Delhi India.
“This is a hell of a way to die.”
Paralysed from the neck down after a car accident, these were the general’s last words before dying in his sleep. ‘Old blood and guts’ died from pulmonary edema and congestive heart failure at a hospital in Heidelberg Germany.
