Last Request Quotes

I am dying. Please ... bring me a toothpick.

If you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips.

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

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.

I have just finished my sketch of my species theory. If as I believe that my theory is true & if it be accepted even by one competent judge, it will be a considerable step in science. I therefore write this, in case of my sudden death, as my most solemn & last request, which I am sure you will consider the same as if legally entered in my will, that you will devote 400£ to its publication & further will yourself, or through Hensleigh [Wedgwood], take trouble in promoting it.

A man walks into a hospital feeling unwell and the doctor says: "Sorry, you've only got three minutes to live." The man said: "Can you do something for me?" "Yes," he said. "I'll boil you an egg."

Sweetheart," Bill said formally, "I have always loved you, and I will be proud to die in your service. When I'm gone, say a prayer for me in a real church.

I’ve long said that if I were about to be executed and were given a choice of my last meal, it would be bacon and eggs.

When I die, I want to be the only person in the world not to have seen 'The Sound Of Music.'

My uncle's dying wish - he wanted me on his lap. He was in the electric chair.

My husband wanted to be cremated. I told him I'd scatter his ashes at Neiman Marcus - that way, I'd visit him every day.

And I would hear yet once before I perish The voice which was my music... Speak to me!

When I vacate this sack of old bones I won't care what you do with it. Bury or burn it but don't make much fuss.