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What would you want your last words to be?

If you were to die *knock on wood*, what would you want your last words to be?

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Daniel Sheehan 20+
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Jul 31 2012: I'd like my last words to be, "That was good."
I'd hate for it to be "Oops!"
If it were to be in a cataclysmic event I'd want to be far enough away to say, "What was that?"
Lindsay Newland Bowker 50+
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Jul 31 2012: My beloved friend and great american poet Harry Smith recently sent me a new poem that his answer to this...

LAST THOUGHT

I'd like to think my last thoughts will be love,
a celebration of a slight caress,
a calm exaltation of holding hands,
Or simply words, the simple words for love.

Harry Smith..Little Things Presa Press 2009

Harry was my first and onlylLandlord in NYC in 1967..we lived in the ground floor apartment of his Brooklyn Heights brownstone..what luck eh?

My own I think might be

"I had so much fun"
Obey No1kinobe 50+
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Jul 30 2012: I love you.
Goodnight
douglas macrae smith
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Jul 30 2012: I buried all the money just behind the the ...aaargh...
- Derek Young 30+
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  Jul 30 2012: That is funny, but would suck for the other person. =P
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    Jul 31 2012: Quite true - its much better to make stupid jokes and say I love u etc long before lying on ones deathbed
    
    I'd just like to mention that the traditional term for avoiding the evil eye, or bad luck, is "touchwood" - "you better knock, knock, knock on wood, baby, oooh..." comes from a popular song - although I'm sure both expressions are just as effective.
Don Wesley 50+
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Jul 30 2012: I love you now and I will love you later
Edwin Tjoe
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Jul 30 2012: amen
Simba P.K.S
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Jul 26 2012: Emergency call!

See you!:)
Lawren Jones 10+
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Jul 26 2012: "Rosebud"
- Derek Young 30+
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  Jul 27 2012: HAHA! That movie line is random, but one of my teachers told my class it was a sexual reference to a certain ladies private parts....
Bharath Kumar Kunjibettu 10+
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Jul 15 2012: Life was awesome !!! Thank you !! :)
Derek Young 30+
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Jul 14 2012: One of my teachers" grandparents wrote to his wife on his death bed that 40 (something) years of marriage wasn't enough.

Sweetest words I've ever heard of!

I hope I can say something like that to my spouse for my last words. =)
Mark Meijer 100+
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Jul 13 2012: Look mom, no hands!
Tom Hall
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Jul 12 2012: "It's ok, I've done this before." or "I wonder where the mother bear is..."
Mark Meijer 100+
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Jul 6 2012: I wonder what this button does.
- Lejan . 30+
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  Jul 13 2012: See, that's why you was told not to touch anything... :o)
  - Mark Meijer 100+
    
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    Jul 13 2012: You do know that you're tsk-ing a dead guy? 8-P
    - Lejan . 30+
      
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      Jul 13 2012: Yeah, doesn't help anymore, does it? :o)
  - Mark Meijer 100+
    
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    Jul 13 2012: Or maybe it does... I won't be touching anything anymore...
    
    Although apparently being dead so far hasn't stopped me from trying to be funny.
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      Jul 13 2012: Writing 'I won't be touching anything anymore...' yet typing another thought below it, is as funny as those 'without words' comments... You are good!
      
      Afterlife seems to be quite amusing afterall... :o)
Mikey Lee
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Jul 5 2012: "it was me..."
Edward Webber
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Jul 3 2012: The secret of life is.. [cough] ..is.. [cough] .. [gurgling sounds] .. [slumps over, dead]
Lance Shive
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Jul 3 2012: I want my last words to be "I bet my life on it"
Mark Meijer 100+
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Jul 2 2012: Thank you.
Robert Galway 20+
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Jul 2 2012: I will always love you honey, thanks for making my life so special.
Rafi Amin 20+
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Jul 2 2012: Noooooooo.
kshitij sharma
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Jul 2 2012: I LOVE YOU!
Kevin Jacobson
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Jul 2 2012: NASA, you better damn well throw together a warp drive or I'm going to haunt you for eternity!
Oscar Osorio
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Jul 2 2012: Time corrodes, but I'll soon know whether that applies to consciousness.
Robert Winner 50+
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Jul 1 2012: It has been a good 150 years as President, TED fellow, Nobel winner, Pultizer winner, Secretary general of the UN, but I am going skydiving this interview will have to wait. Check my chute please.
Barry Palmer 50+
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Jul 1 2012: "Its time to learn the final answer."

(Interesting that you started your question with "If".)
Colleen Steen 500+
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Jul 1 2012: Hi Rosa,
I will be smiling and saying "I love you" to whomever is with me. If no one is physically with me at the time, I will be appreciating the life adventure:>)

When I was unconscious and the body was close to death after a near fatal head/brain injury and emergency craniotomy, I'm told I was smiling and giving visitors the thumbs up. We live as we die, and die as we live:>)
Erik Richardson 500+
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TEDx Organizer

Jul 1 2012: I just want to go out laughing, so the people around me will know I was loved and that they are loved.
Lejan . 30+
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TED Translator

Jul 1 2012: Alright!
Feyisayo Anjorin 50+
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Jul 1 2012: Thank you Lord God for my life.

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