Final Wishes Quotes

[When I die], I will decidedly not be regretting missed opportunities for a good time. My regrets will be more along the lines of a sad list of people hurt, people let down, assets wasted and advantages squandered.

When one has not long to live, why shouldn't one have fancies?

When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy, the only decent thing to do is die at once.

[When I die] if I leave behind me ten pounds...you and all mankind [may] bear witness against me, that I have lived and died a thief and a robber.

When my mother passed away, we knew what she wanted on her tombstone, so I asked my father, so there wouldn't be any argument among us children, 'Daddy, what do you want on your tombstone?' He thought about that. He said, 'preacher.' So that's what's going to be on his tombstone. Preacher.

I think about death. I don't want to die with clothes in the cleaners.

When you're dying, you're liberated to do what you want to do. You give yourself permission. I think everyone's experience with a terminal disease is so deeply personal and unique to the person, the context in which they're living and the relationships that they have.

I intend, before the endgame looms, to die sitting in a chair in my own garden with a glass of brandy in my hand and Thomas Tallis on the iPod. Oh, and since this is England, I had better add, 'If wet, in the library.' Who could say that this is bad?

To Harry Secombe: I hope you die first as I don't want you singing at my funeral.

When I die, I hope they don't cremate me 'cuz I'll burn forever.

I'm not going to have a tombstone. I'm going to be tossed in the air. Ashes, tossed like a salad.

I wish to be put away in a western dress I designed, with my daughter's little gold cross necklace and my son's small white testament in my hands, and my wedding band on.

I don't dwell on it. But I guess everybody hopes that they go in their sleep and that it won't be long and painful.

I want to be cremated, and I want my ashes blown in Uri Geller's eyes.

When I die, if the word 'thong' appears in the first or second sentence of my obituary, I've screwed up.

The other day, the way people [do] who are approaching their 80th birthday, I was thinking about all the last business - funerals and where do you want to be buried - and I thought if anything were to be inscribed on my tombstone, I said let it be that.

I plan to die at my desk.

It's really sort of morbid, but she said her mother wanted to see me all her life. And when she died, she made just one request: that a picture of me be put into her casket. So somewhere in England, I'm in a casket.

When I die throw my body in the back and drive me to the junk yard in my Cadillac.

When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.

When I go down into the ground at last, as God is my judge, I pray my best-beloved may have better to say of me than, "He didn't hit me."

Posthumously means getting something after you’re dead, which is not as good as getting something while you are alive, but better than not getting anything at all.

My grandma, Nai Nai, has had the clothes she wants to be buried prepared since she was like 60. I guess there is an openness to discussing. It's part of life. It's part of the every day.

I just hope and pray I can die with my boots on.

Just throw me in my coffin now with these earrings on.