Famous Last Words

The following are the last words spoken by famous individuals:

"Nothing matters. Nothing matters." —Louis B. Mayer, film producer; died ...

Cancer Patient Finds No Comfort in Statistics

Where do you put your hope and trust when you get a bad report from the doctor? How do you get some control of the situation? Author Phyllis Ten Elshof ...

Crocodile Hunter Killed by Unlikely Animal

Steve Irwin, known around the world as the "Crocodile Hunter," was killed on September 4, 2006, while filming wildlife along the Great Barrier ...

Pastor Starts Ministry for the Terminally Ill

The terminal wing of the hospital may seem like an unlikely location for active evangelism, but that's where the "Last Minute Ministry" ...

Dynamite Inventor Confronted by His Own Epitaph

In 1867, Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel invented a new high explosive, which he named "dynamite." He was convinced that his invention would make ...

Augustine on Death

It is necessary to die, but nobody wants to. You don't want to, but you are going to, willy-nilly. A hard necessity that is: not to want something that ...

Positive Attitude Makes for Longer Lifespan

Elderly people who have a negative attitude toward growing old are literally thinking themselves into an early grave. A Reuters News report from a journal ...

Steve Jobs on Remembering Mortality

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything—all ...

Brazilian Mayor Tries to Ban Death

Facing a capacity crowd in the town's only cemetery and other government-protected properties, Pereira da Silva, mayor of the Brazilian town of Biritiba-Mirim, ...

Last Phone Call

"If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?" ...