The last words spoken by famous people before they died

Diana Spencer's life tragically ended on August 31, 1997, after a car accident under the Alma bridge in Paris. But, unlike Dodi Al-Fayed who was at her side in the black Mercedes, the princess was not killed instantly. Xavier Gourmelon, a Paris fire sergeant, said that a few minutes after the accident, while he was trying to rescue her, Diana cried out: "My God, what has happened?"

On January 15, 1965, Winston Churchill suffered a stroke. The former British Prime Minister was ill for the next nine days and finally let out his last breath on January 24. His last words would have been: "I'm so bored with it all", as reported by Thomas Snégaroff in his work 'Le fin mot de l'Histoire'.

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John F. Kennedy and his wife Jacky sat in a convertible alongside Texas Governor John Connally and his wife Nelly during their fateful visit to Dallas on November 22, 1963. The Governor said to JFK: "Mr. President, they can’t make you believe now that there are not some in Dallas who love you and appreciate you, can they", to which JFK would have replied, "No, they sure can't!" A few seconds later, the American president was shot in the head.

On September 18, 1970, Jimi Hendrix died in his sleep, in a hotel in Notting Hill, London, after taking too many sleeping pills mixed with wine. The guitarist reportedly died of suffocation on his vomit. At the foot of his bed, a poem was found with these scribbled words, probably his last: "The story of life is quicker than the blink of an eye. The story of love is hello and goodbye Until we meet again."

Holed up in a Berlin bunker for several months, Adolf Hitler preferred to die rather than accept defeat. With his companion Eva Braun, he ended his life on April 30, 1945. But before doing so, he recommended to his butler that he attempt a breakthrough towards the west. "But for whom must we break through now?", asked the butler. "For the coming man," Hitler allegedly replied.

On January 10, 1971, Gabrielle Chanel, aka Coco Chanel, was lying in bed at the Ritz in Paris when she felt severe pain in her chest. "I’m suffocating, Jeanne," the famous seamstress reportedly said to her maid, before pronouncing these last words, in a panic: "You see, this is how you die."

Tel Aviv, November 4, 1995. Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin delivered a speech in favor of peace with the Palestinians. He ended the speech with these words: "Peace is an open door to economic and social progress. Peace is not only in prayer but it is the true desire of the Jewish people." A few minutes later, while returning to his vehicle, he was shot by the extremist Yigal Amir.

At 77, Mahatma Gandhi was fighting to unify India, a country torn by tensions between Hindus and Muslims. On January 30, 1948, he went to a public prayer in Delhi when a Hindu nationalist shot him three times. The famous spiritual guide would then have murmured "Ram, Ram" ("God, God").

Mexican artist Frida Kahlo died on July 13, 1954, from a pulmonary embolism at just 47 years old. In her diary, we can read the last words written by the painter: "I happily await the exit and I hope to never return again."

Marie Antoinette was guillotined on October 16, 1793, nine months after her husband King Louis XVI, when she was only 38 years old. On that day, legend has it that the Austrian woman stepped on the foot of her executioner, Sanson the Great, while climbing onto his scaffold. She would then have apologized by uttering these very last words: "Pardon me, sir, I did not do it on purpose."

Suffering from a rare and severe form of skin cancer, Bob Marley died prematurely at the age of 36 on May 11, 1981. On his deathbed, the king of reggae would have given one last piece of advice to his son Ziggy: "Money can't buy life."

Sometime before his death, Sigmund Freud left Vienna to escape Nazism and settled in London. Suffering from jaw cancer for more than 15 years, the inventor of psychoanalysis asked his doctor, Max Schur, to put an end to his suffering by injecting him with a lethal dose of morphine. "My dear Schur, you remember our first talk. You promised to help me when I could no longer carry on. It is only torture now, and it has no longer any sense." On September 23, 1939, as the world went to war, Freud died.

John Lennon allegedly yelled "I'm shot" before collapsing to the ground moments later. On December 8, 1980, the singer was shot and killed by Mark David Chapman as he was about to enter his apartment building in New York with his wife Yoko Ono.

On October 5, 2011, Steve Jobs took his last breath after battling pancreatic cancer. His sister, author Mona Simpson, subsequently signed a eulogy published in the New York Times, in which she described the Apple boss's final moments: "Before embarking, he'd looked at his sister Patty, then for a long time at his children, then at his life's partner, Laurene, and then over their shoulders past them… Steve's last words were: 'Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow.'"

Spanish painter Pablo Picasso died on April 8, 1973, in southern France at the age of 91. They say that, on the day before his death, the famous artist proposed a toast during dinner with the words: "Drink to me, drink to my health, you know I can't drink anymore," while serving wine to guests. His famous last words inspired Paul McCartney to make a song titled "Picasso's Last Words (Drink to Me)".

Karl Marx died peacefully in his armchair on March 14, 1883, from tuberculosis. A few hours before his death, when his maid asked him to write down his last words, the German philosopher replied: "Last words are for fools who haven’t said enough!"

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