It seems that the final words uttered by a person are given a great deal of importance. It is possible that it is anticipated that they will say something really profound, perhaps offer an apology or confess something of some kind or all of the above.
When it comes to renowned people, their devoted followers may want nothing more than one final remembrance of the celebrity to cling to. Below is the list of the ten hilarious and bizarre last words of dead celebrities.
1. Joe DiMaggio - “I finally get to see Marilyn.”
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The famous Yankees hitter married Marilyn Monroe for less than a year, but he will never forget her. They were married for a short time in 1954, but DiMaggio still loved her even after they broke up. He claimed her body when she died in 1962 and cared for the funeral. When Joltin' Joe died in 1999, after 37 years, his last words were about the woman he used to be married to.
2. Dimebag Darrell - “Van Halen!”
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“Dimebag” Darrell Abbott was a famous metal guitarist who worked with bands like Damageplan and Pantera. In 2004, a man named Nathan Gale shot and killed him at a concert in Columbus, Ohio. Three more people died in the attack, and many more were hurt.
3. Elvis Presley - “I’m going to the bathroom to read.”
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The King of Rock and Roll didn't die with much honor. He was only 42 when he had a heart attack in the bathroom. In her memoir, his fiancee Ginger Alden said those were the last words he spoke before she found him unresponsive on the bathroom floor.
4. Steve Jobs -“Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow.”
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Many people thought that the founder of Apple and tech visionary Steve Jobs was a modern genius. He was also known to be a jerk. Steve Jobs was smart enough to come up with ideas like the iPod and the modern smartphone, but when he was told he had pancreatic cancer, he didn't listen to what the doctors said. He didn't want to listen to them, so he tried to fight cancer by changing his diet, taking herbal medicines, and getting acupuncture. He died in 2011 when he was 56 years old.
5. Joan Crawford - “Damn it! Don’t you dare ask God to help me!”
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Joan Crawford was an American actress who worked in movies and on TV. She lived to be 73 years old. But in the end, she wasn't ready to let religion into her life. Before she died of a heart attack in 1977, she reportedly yelled at people praying for her.
6. TuPac Shakur - “F–k you.”
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Tupac was ready to be a gangster until the end, it seems. One officer says that he said these famous last words before he was killed after a Mike Tyson fight in Las Vegas. Shakur was on life support for six days before he died.
7. George Eastman - “To my friends: my work is done. Why wait?”
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George Eastman started the company Eastman Kodak, which changed how people took pictures. As he got older, though, a problem with his spine caused him a lot of pain. In 1932, he killed himself and left a short note for his family and friends.
8. Kurt Cobain - “It’s better to burn out than fade away.”
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In his suicide note, the man who helped start the grunge music sound used a quote from another musician. This is a line from Neil Young's song "Hey, My My (Into the Black)" that Cobain used as his last words before he shot himself in 1994. It's eerie how true it is since Cobain and Nirvana went from being one of the biggest bands in the world to not even being around the next day.
9. Gia Allemand - “Mom gets everything.”
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Marie Antonette and her husband, King Louis XVI, were killed for treason after the French Revolution. Antoinette stepped on her executioner's foot as she was climbing the scaffold to the guillotine. She apologized because she was always a lady but soon lost her mind.
10. Walt Disney - “Kurt Russell.”
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This one still doesn't make sense. In 1966, the man who started Disney wrote on a piece of paper the name of a child actor named Kurt Russell. This was his last message. His family couldn't figure out why, and Russell says he doesn't know what it means either.