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Famous Last Words.
Quickies. But fabulous, as speeches go.
"The Ladies have to go first....Get in the lifeboat, to
please me....Goodbye, dearie. I'll see you later ".
John Jacob Astor IV, then the richest man in the world, to his wife, Madeline, on April 15,1912,on
board the Titanic.

"Why not? After all, it belongs to him".
Charlie Chaplin, on December 25,1977, to the priest
who said on his deathbed," May the Lord have mercy on your soul ".

"My God. What happened?
Diana, Princess of Wales, on August 31,1997, after the Mercedes that she and Dodi AL Fayed were traveling in crashed in the Pont de I'Alma tunnel in
Paris. Both died later.

"I know you have come to kill me .Shoot, coward. You are only going to kill a man."
Latin American revolutionary Ernesto 'Che'Guevara, on October 9,1967,just before
he was wounded, captured and executed by the
Bolivian Army.

"It is finished "(John 19:30)
"My God, my God why have you forsaken me!(Mark
15:34-5 and Matthew 27:46)

"Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit ".(Luke
23:46)Jesus of Nazareth, on April 3,33(?), on the cross on which he was killed.

'Go on, get out! Last Words are for fools who haven't
said enough!'
Karl Marx, on March 14,1883, to his housekeeper who asked him if he had any last words.

'Shoot me in the chest!'
Benito Mussolini, Italian dictator, April 28,1945,to his executioners.

MISHRA POONAM