Dying words. Last words of famous people

Many of us would like to leave a mark on history and know that we will be remembered even when we are gone. But even the final chord must be played perfectly. However, since we don’t know when that very hour will come, we won’t have time to think of what to say. But some apparently succeeded. It is interesting how some famous personalities did not make a mistake even at their last moment. Some of the quotes below are quite funny, others are brilliant with wisdom.

Winston Churchill

Even when he passed away, the British Prime Minister did not change his dry wit. Churchill left this world, saying that he was “bored” here.

Joan Crawford

Crawford's characteristic harshness did not leave her even in her dying hour. According to her housekeeper, before her death, Joan said: “Don’t you dare ask God to help me.”

Buddy Rich

But Buddy Rich managed to joke before his death. He died in 1987 after surgery, and his last words were in response to a nurse asking if he was allergic to anything. The musician replied that it was country music.

Pancho Villa

The rebel, one of the leaders of the Mexican Revolution, clearly wanted to say something epic before his death. Why else would he tell reporters, while dying from a bullet, to say he "said something"?

Arthur Conan Doyle

Chekhov was right when he spoke about brevity. Arthur Conan Doyle uttered only two words, but they were so memorable. They were addressed to his wife and sounded like "You are beautiful."

George Harrison

Real wisdom was spoken by George Harrison before his death. His words were: "Love one another."

James French

The dying remarks of executed criminals are always recorded, although they rarely deserve attention. James French is an exception. This murderer was executed in the electric chair. His words became the headline for many subsequent articles: "French fries!" (“french fries”, but literally “toasted French”).

V.S. Fields

Before his death, the comedian, like the author of Sherlock Holmes, turned to his beloved. But his statement is much more interesting: “Damn the whole world and everyone in it, except you, Carlotta.”

Chico Marks

And Marx was among those who turned to their soulmate. Chico gave her peculiar instructions: to place “a deck of cards, a hockey stick and a cute blonde” in his coffin.

Groucho Marx

Marx's brother, Groucho, was a witty man. Dying, he said: “This is no way to live!”

Bing Crosby

There are also those who, looking back at their lives, remember only the good things. Crosby, for example, said, “That was a great game of golf!”

Voltaire

Voltaire was not religious and did not change his beliefs even on his deathbed. When the priest asked him to renounce the devil, the philosopher said that now was “not the time to make new enemies.”

Leonardo Da Vinci

The problem with being a perfectionist is that you are never satisfied with your work, even when you are dying. So Da Vinci expressed himself self-critically: “I offended God and people, because my work is not as high quality as it should be.”

Ramo

Once a composer, always a composer. That's why Rameau's last words contained complaints about singing in his honor: "You are out of tune."

Nostradamus

The fortuneteller was not mistaken in his dying words. When he said, “Tomorrow I won’t be here,” he turned out to be absolutely right.

Mozart

Poetic words are just in the spirit of a true creator. "The taste of death is on my lips. I feel something not from this earth."

Marie Antoinette

The famous queen of France, a great figure, an idol of many women, ended her life on the guillotine. While climbing the scaffold, Marie Antoinette stepped on her executioner's foot. That is why her dying statement: “Forgive me, monsignor” (orig. “Pardonnez-moi, monsieur”)

Jack Daniel

Jack Daniel had the perfect parting words. The creator of the popular famous brand of alcoholic drink could not say otherwise than: “Pour the last one, please.”

1.Oscar Wilde, the great esthete and master of paradoxes, died in a room with tasteless wallpaper. Even in the face of death, his refined taste and sense of humor remained intact. After the words: “Killer colors! One of us will have to leave here” - he left for another world.

2. Mikhail Evgrafovich Saltykov-Shchedrin greeted death with the question: “Is that you, fool?”

3. Eugene O'Neill lamented before his death: “I knew it! I knew it! I was born in a hotel and, damn it, I’m dying in a hotel.”

4. William Somerset Maugham took care of those who remained: “Dying is a boring and joyless thing. My advice to you is never do this.”

5. The last words of William Saroyan are not without grace and self-irony: “Everyone is destined to die, but I always thought that they would make an exception for me. And what?"

6. Dying, Honore de Balzac remembered one of the characters in his stories, the experienced doctor Bianchon. “He would have saved me,” sighed the great writer.

7. Johann Wolfgang Goethe said right before his death: “More light!” Before this, he asked the doctor how long he had left to live. When the doctor admitted that it was no more than an hour, Goethe sighed with relief and said: “Thank God, only an hour!”

8. Dying in the town of Bougival near Paris, Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev uttered mysterious words: “Farewell, my dears, my whitish ones...”.

9. "So what's the answer?" asked Gertrude Stein as she was wheeled into the operating room. The writer was dying of cancer, from which her mother had previously died. Without waiting for an answer, she asked again: “What is the question then?” The writer never woke up from the anesthesia.

10. The French writer, poet and playwright Felix Arver died as a true champion of language. Hearing a nurse say to someone: “It’s at the end of the KoLidora,” he groaned with the last of his strength: “Not the KoLidora, but the KoRidora!” - and died.

Last words of famous people

Many people are probably wondering what they will think about in the last moments of their lives. In the face of death, everyone thinks and talks about their own things - some say goodbye to their family and friends, others try to do what they love until the very end, and still others find nothing better than to utter some kind of barb at those present.

For your attention - the dying statements of individuals who, one way or another, left their mark on history.

Rafael Santi, artist

"Happy".

Gustav Mahler, composer

Gustav Mahler died in his bed. In the last minutes of his life, it seemed to him that he was conducting an orchestra and his final word was: “Mozart!”

Jean-Philippe Rameau, composer

The dying composer did not like the fact that the priest was singing psalms at his deathbed and he said: “Why the hell do I need all these songs, Holy Father? You’re fake!”

Frank Sinatra, singer

"I'm losing him."

George Orwell, writer

"At fifty, every man has the face he deserves." Orwell died at the age of 46.

Jean-Paul Sartre, philosopher, writer

In the last minutes of his life, Sartre, turning to his beloved, Simone de Beauvoir, said: “I love you so much, my dear Beaver.”

Nostradamus, doctor, alchemist, astrologer

The thinker’s dying words, like many of his statements, turned out to be prophetic: “Tomorrow at dawn I will be gone.” The prediction came true.

Vladimir Nabokov, writer

In addition to his literary activities, Nabokov was interested in entomology, in particular the study of butterflies. His last words were: “Some butterfly has already taken flight.”

Marie Antoinette, Queen of France

Stepping on the foot of the executioner, who was leading her to the scaffold, the queen said with dignity: “Please excuse me, monsieur. I did not mean to".

Sir Isaac Newton, physicist, mathematician

“I don’t know how the world perceived me. I always seemed to myself like a boy playing on the seashore and amusing myself with searching for beautiful pebbles and shells, while the great ocean of truth lay unknown before me.”

Leonardo da Vinci, thinker, scientist, artist

“I offended God and people, because in my works I did not reach the heights to which I aspired.”

Benjamin Franklin, politician, diplomat, scientist, journalist

When his daughter asked 84-year-old seriously ill Franklin to lie down differently so that he could breathe easier, the old man, sensing the imminent end, grumpily said: “Nothing comes easy to a dying person.”

Charles "Lucky" Luciano, gangster

Luciano died while filming a documentary about the Sicilian mafia. His dying phrase was: “One way or another, I want to get into the movies.” The mafioso's last wish came true - several feature films and documentaries were made based on Luciano's life; he was one of the few gangsters who died a natural death.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, writer

The creator of Sherlock Holmes died of a heart attack in his garden at the age of 71. His last words were addressed to his beloved wife: “You are wonderful,” the writer said and died.

Ernest Hemingway, writer

On July 2, 1961, Hemingway said to his wife: “Good night, kitten.” Then he went to his room, and a few minutes later his wife heard a loud, abrupt sound - the writer committed suicide with a shot in the head.

Alfred Hitchcock, film director, master of suspense

“Nobody knows what the ending will be. To know exactly what will happen after death, you need to die, although Catholics have some hopes in this regard.”

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, revolutionary, one of the founders of the USSR

Before his death, Vladimir Ilyich, turning to his beloved dog who brought him a dead bird, said: “Here is a dog.”

Sir Winston Churchill, politician, Prime Minister of Great Britain

“I’m so tired of all this.”

Joan Crawford, actress

With one foot in the grave, Joan turned to the housekeeper, who was reciting a prayer: “Damn it! Don’t you dare ask God to help me!”

Bo Diddley, singer, founder of rock and roll

The famous musician died while listening to the song “Walk Around Heaven” by American singer Patti LaBelle. According to eyewitnesses, before his death, Diddley said: “Wow!”

Steve Jobs, entrepreneur, founder of Apple Corporation

"Wow. Wow. Wow!".

While working as a resuscitator in a hospital, Alexey Samokhin wrote down what people said before they died. These phrases, chaotic as life itself, and the author’s comments on them, are an invaluable and unprecedented document of human existence.

Lesha Samokhin was a talented person - a journalist, musician and doctor. Saving the lives of many, he himself died young, in the best traditions of poets - at 37 years old. His most striking legacy is the text “Last Words”. In memory of Alexey, we are publishing this amazing text.

The boomerang, no matter what its flight may be, must return back. If you put your hand on your pulse, you will feel the countdown starting at the moment of your birth. Someday, you will definitely die. All your life, unless you are mute, you speak. You say words, words about words... Someday what you say will be your last word. What follows below are the last words I listened to during my five years of working in the hospital. First, I started writing them down in a notebook so I wouldn't forget. Then I realized that I was remembering it forever and stopped writing it down. Here, not all of me are like that, selectively...

At first, when I stopped working at the hospital, I regretted that I now heard such things extremely rarely. Only later did I realize that the last words can be heard from living people. It’s enough just to listen more closely and understand that most of them won’t say anything more.

“Wash the currants, son, they just came from the garden...”

A. 79 years old
This was the first entry in my notebook, the first thing I heard when I was still an orderly. I went to wash the currants, and when I returned, my grandmother had already died of a heart attack with the same expression on her face with which I left her.

“But he’s still more intelligent than you...”

V. 47 years old
An elderly, very rich Azerbaijani woman who threw a tantrum that she wanted to see her son. They were given ten minutes to talk and when I came to escort him out of the department, I heard that was the last thing she said to him. After he left, she looked at everyone rather angrily, did not speak to anyone, and an hour later she died as a result of cardiac arrest.

“Get your hands off, armed gang! You swore eternal friendship to me!”

G. 44 years old
It was some old Jew in complete insanity. On the first day after the operation, apparently after anesthesia, he confessed his love to everyone, and on the second he decided that we were “an evil gang who disguised themselves as people of a sacred profession.” He cursed all day and by the evening, without ceasing to curse, he died.

I've already sprayed myself with this crap five hundred times!

D. 66 years old
Some mechanic died of an attack of bronchial asthma before my eyes. This is the only thing he managed to tell me, showing me a bottle with an inhaler that expands the airways. Then he collapsed on the floor.

"Potassium..."

E. 34 years old
Potassium was the cause of his death. The nurse did not set the drip speed and the lightning-fast administration of potassium caused cardiac arrest. Apparently, he felt this, because when I ran into the hall at the sound of the instruments, he raised his index finger up and, pointing to the empty jar, told me what was in it. This, by the way, was the only case of potassium overdose out of several dozen in my practice, which resulted in death.

“How aware are you of what you are doing? Write to me on a piece of paper how aware you are of what you are doing now...”

J. 53 years old
J. was a hydraulic engineer. He suffered from hypochondriacal delirium, asking everyone and everything about the mechanism of action of each pill and “why it itches here and pricks here.” He asked the doctors to sign his notebook for each injection. To be honest, he died because of the nurse’s rudeness, either she mixed up the cardiotonic, or its dose... I don’t remember. I only remember what he said at the end.

“It really hurts here!”

Z. 24 years old
This young man had one of the youngest heart attacks in Moscow. He constantly asked only to “p-i-t...” and said, placing his hand on the area of ​​his heart, that he was in great pain. His mother said he was very stressed. Three days later, the youngest death from myocardial infarction was recorded. He died repeating these words...

"I want to go home"

I. 8 years old
A girl who spoke only these two words for two weeks after liver surgery. She died while on my watch.

"There was a better state..."

K. 46 years old
A patient who, after two unconscious months, asked to deflate the cuff on his tracheostomy, convincing everyone that he definitely needed to say something. Having croaked these two words, he lost consciousness again and never came to his senses.

"I am a relative of Igor Langno."

L. 28 years old
He was a blond Baltic guy with a severe heart defect named Igor Langno.

"Larissa, Lara, Larisa..."

M. 45 years old
M. had a repeated extensive myocardial infarction. He died and agonized for three days, all the while holding onto his wedding ring with the fingers of his other hand and repeating his wife's name. When he died, I took off this ring to give it to her.

"Don't stand at my cold feet."

N. 74 years old
This grandmother told everyone that they were “strangers” to her. She said her last phrase proudly and slightly angrily. She told me during the night rounds, refusing treatment. After that, she pointedly turned to the wall and fell asleep. In the morning, her roommates discovered her, dying in this position. I really didn’t have to stand at her cold feet.

"Girls, buy me two Wheels Cars, please. Your wife will give you the money. For some tea. Thank you."

O. 57 years old
A precocious-looking diabetic who, fearing that he had been accidentally given a glucose drip, injected himself with an “overdose” of insulin. At this time, the nurses went to the store outside and he asked them to buy him a chocolate bar to raise his sugar level. After this, he lost consciousness from hypoglycemia. I never came to my senses. The chocolates were brought when he had already died. My wife never gave me the money.

“You are a doctor... Therefore, it will be so, as you tell me.”

P. 44 years old
An intelligent, gray-haired Georgian who constantly shook hands in a friendly manner with everyone who approached him, repeating that he trusted everyone and believed in everyone. He said these words after an injection of morphine, before he was put on an oxygen mask. During his sleep, he developed ventricular fibrillation. He was shocked thirty times. Then my heart stopped. They didn't start it.

“Of course, I’ve become a bit old...”

R. 62 years old
An asthenic grandfather with a gray bald spot, who was successfully recovering from a banal coronary artery bypass surgery. He lay alone in a single room and constantly tossed and turned in the bed so that the sheet “crumpled” and had to be pulled up regularly. He complained about his age, grunting, just at that moment, waddling from side to side. He had no complications. I gave him an injection of rellanium to make him sleep. He died in his sleep, apparently “of old age.”

“If I get well and my heart grows back, I can bring you real high boots from the North. You can go hunting in high boots, so you won’t know grief in Moscow. If there is no rejection, like a submariner, then you can come to me in guests to go. We have times there when the sun does not set over the horizon. I try there, I try back... I will hover a centimeter from the horizon and back. There I will arrange a celebration of life for you. I will take you to the hills. So you can relax with us in the north, that you won’t want to go south. Okay, I’ll sleep, I’ll sleep... When I sleep, it doesn’t seem so alarming... Be careful with the electrodes, otherwise in the morning I woke up and nothing was running... Well, I think that’s it... Yes, that’s what I’m going to tell you, I know everything yourself..."

S. 43 years old
During this story, the nurse administered a sleeping pill, on which he fell asleep. This patient was a mustachioed resident of the Far North. He came to Moscow with a diagnosis of dilated cardiomyopathy, which has only one treatment option, a heart transplant, after which we were on duty. “Submariner” I am his friend from the squad, who served on a submarine all his life, who died during a crisis of rejection, a month after the operation. He had the same indications for a transplant, which he brought himself to by making a vow to “fuck 100 women,” breaking down on the 76th. S. didn’t even make it to the crisis. He died seven or eight hours later from some kind of fulminant infection. I remember that there was a big scandal with surgeons who reproached us for not maintaining sterility. I think they even called the SES...

"Everything?.. Yes?.. Everything?.. Everything?.. Yes?.. Everything?.. Yes?.."

T. 56 years old
This patient died much like the above-mentioned E. He stood up without permission to urinate in the “duck” on his own. At that moment, ventricular fibrillation began and he fell to the floor. We, the whole shift, put him on the bed. Cardiac arrest began, someone began to “pump”... For each compression of the chest, as he exhaled, he asked one of these questions. Nobody answered him. This lasted about ten seconds.

“When I was flying I saw white lights, really, drink this yourself when your daughter comes”

U. 57 years old
In fact, it was the military pilot Belousov. Charming, handsome and very strong-willed guy. With a complication, he was on a ventilator for four months until he died of sepsis. These are not words because he could not speak because of the tracheostomy, these are his last note, which he wrote in huge letters that resembled the scribbles of a preschooler. He tried to explain to me three times about the white lights, but unfortunately, he didn’t understand anything. Drink yourself about the miraculous medicine mumiyo, which he was conscientiously given to drink at the insistence of his brother, also, by the way, a military pilot. I was on duty with Belousov for a month and a half, fifteen shifts in a row. I really cared for him and really wanted him to get better. He died at night and I was incredibly upset. In the morning, leaving work, I ran into his daughter at the door of the department. She knew me and smiled and asked: “How is he doing?” Well, I brought him baby purees, mineral water, honey... I frowned, deliberately rudely muttered something about being tired after a sleepless night, and quickly ran into the elevator. They say she sat at the entrance for two hours, no one dared to tell her...

“Take the carriage away, the magnifying glass is burning.”

B. 52 years old
A huge miner from Donbass who did not know how to correctly pronounce half of the most common words in the Russian language. He spoke in a clipped bass voice. Until he died, the catheter was never removed.

"Come to me! I'll share the thrill with you!"

F. 19 years old
It wasn't me who heard it. A friend of mine, whom I met when he worked as a salesman in a music store, heard this. These words belong to his girlfriend, who died a few minutes later from a heroin overdose. At his home, in his bed. Later, I asked him if he remembered her last words. “Of course, I will never forget them!” he answered and shared with me.

Julius Caesar

In 44 BC, the Republicans, not wanting Caesar to turn the Roman Republic into a monarchy, conspired. Gaius Julius Caesar was stabbed to death. Seeing his friend among the conspirators, the wounded Caesar stopped resisting and said: "And you Brute!" According to another version, the phrase was different and contained more regret than indignation: “Even you, my child, Brutus? “The most common version of the phrase is used in the play “Julius Caesar” written by William Shakespeare. Today this catchphrase is pronounced when they want to point out the betrayal of a friend.

On January 27, 1837, Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin was mortally wounded in a duel with Dantes. After being wounded, Pushkin lived for another 2 days, experiencing severe pain. The poet was dying at home. Next to him was I. T. Spassky and Vladimir Ivanovich Dal, who kept a medical history diary. Thanks to this diary, Pushkin’s last words are known:

The pulse began to drop and soon disappeared completely, and the hands began to get cold. It struck two o'clock in the afternoon, January 29, and there was only three quarters of an hour of life left in Pushkin. The cheerful spirit still retained its power; occasionally only half-asleep, oblivion for a few seconds clouded my thoughts and soul. Then the dying man several times gave me his hand, squeezed it and said: “Well, lift me up, let’s go, higher, higher, well, let’s go.” Having come to his senses, he told me: “I dreamed that I was climbing high on these books and shelves with you and my head was spinning.” Once or twice he looked closely at me and asked: “Who is this, you?” "I am, my friend." “What is it,” he continued, “I couldn’t recognize you.” A little later, he again, without opening his eyes, began to look for my hand and, holding it out, said: “Well, let’s go, please, together!” I approached V.A. Zhukovsky and gr. Vielgorsky and said: he’s leaving! Pushkin opened his eyes and asked for pickled cloudberries; when they brought her, he said clearly: “Call your wife, let her feed me.” Natalia Nikolaevna knelt down at the head of the dying man, brought him a spoon, then another, and pressed her face to her husband’s forehead. Pushkin stroked her head and said: “Well, nothing, thank God, everything is fine.”

Friends and neighbors silently surrounded the head of the departing; I, at his request, took him under the arms and lifted him higher. He suddenly seemed to wake up, quickly opened his eyes, his face cleared up, and he said: “Life is over!” I didn’t hear enough and asked quietly: “What’s over?” “Life is over,” he answered clearly and positively. “It’s hard to breathe, it’s crushing,” were his last words. All the local calm spread throughout the body; the hands were cold up to the shoulders, the toes, feet and knees as well; the jerky, rapid breathing changed more and more into slow, quiet, drawn-out breathing; one more weak, barely noticeable sigh and an immense, immeasurable abyss separated the living from the dead. He died so quietly that those present did not notice his death.

Nostradamus

Today, the name of this doctor, astrologer and predictor of the 15th century has become a household name. He predicted the death of Henry II at the tournament. They wanted to burn him for this. However, he was saved by Catherine de' Medici, Queen of France. Catherine has always been attracted by an interest in the occult and everything unusual. The queen had seven children. Nostradamus predicted that four of them would die, and so it happened.

After the incident at the tournament, Nostradamus began to further confuse his predictions in poetry, so as not to incur the wrath of people.

He predicted the coming of three antichrists, the first was Napoleon, the second was Hitler, and the third was yet to appear in the future.

They say that when predicting events in the very distant future, he had to use the words that he knew. So instead of a submarine, he used the word iron fish, the flame of fire with long sparks in the sky was, apparently, a rocket.

In 1566, at the age of 63, he died due to complications of gout. They say that his last words were: “Tomorrow I won’t be here anymore”

It is a nickname. Real name William Sydney Porter. He worked for some time in a bank, which later discovered a shortage. To avoid prison he was forced to flee the city to Honduras. But having learned that his wife was seriously ill, he went to see her in the city of Austin, knowing that he would be arrested.

After the death of his wife, he was arrested for 5 years, but later released early for good behavior. In prison he had the opportunity to write, and there the pseudonym O. Henry arose.

In the last years of his life, the writer abused alcohol; he was later diagnosed with cirrhosis of the liver and diabetes. Before his death on the night of June 5, 1910, while in a hospital ward O. Henry said: "Turn on the light. I don't want to go home in the dark."

Marie Antoinette

Being a native of Austria, she married Louis Augustus to try on Austria and France. The Queen lived in her own “luxurious” world, not seeing what was happening in real France. Hunger and Poverty surrounded the people, while the queen bought herself expensive jewelry, dresses, villas and castles.

For a long time, the Queen was interested in entertainment, and then raising children. Politics and numbers were boring, and therefore they trusted the king completely. However, the king could not cope with his task, and did not say anything to his wife, because he did not want to upset her. When Marie Antoinette realized this, it was already too late, the people had completely rebelled after many years of hunger, and soon a revolution began.

Now the Queen was forced to face those whom she did not know and did not want to know - the people.

The new legislative body of France was supposed to finally put an end to the monarchy, and therefore to the king. At first, the death sentence was imposed on King Louis 16, and he was soon executed. Marie Antoinette was imprisoned and her children were taken away by force. Afterwards he was accused of treason, connections with enemies and embezzlement of the state treasury. At all trials, the queen defended herself intelligently and decisively. But slander is a sure way to kill. A few hours after the trial, Marie Antoinette learned of the verdict. The tribunal was to execute her at dawn.

And so the former queen left the hall without uttering a word and without showing a single drop of weakness on her face. The next morning the Queen walked proudly to the scaffold. Her face showed no emotion. Having accidentally stepped on the executioner's foot, the queen followed the rules of etiquette, which she always considered boring , apologized and said“Please excuse me, monsieur. I didn’t do it on purpose.” These were her last words.

Leonardo da Vinci

The painting was painted by François-Guillaume Menagot. Death of Leonardo da Vinci in the hands of Francis I.

At the end of the 15th and beginning of the 16th centuries, Leonardo da Vinci lived; he was an inventor, artist, and alchemist. His discoveries were ahead of their time. Secret signs and secrets are found in each of his paintings. And the most famous portrait of Mona Lisa still amazes the minds of many people.

Leonardo's last days show how much he has achieved in life. The illegitimate son was far from the poor village in which he was born. He was surrounded by rich and powerful people who admired him. A few days before his death, Leonardo called a notary to draw up a will and give instructions for his own funeral. Among his demands were even the number and weight of candles that were to be lit during the mass on the day of his burial. It seems as if death was the last secret he wanted to comprehend.

At the time of his death, three paintings were with the artist: St. John the Baptist, St. Anne and the famous portrait of a smiling woman, the Mona Lisa. It is believed that this choice was not accidental. They say that during a confession before a priest, Leonardo asked for forgiveness for paintings that contradict tradition. Leonardo da Vinci's last great words were: “I offended God and people, because in my works I did not reach the heights to which I aspired.”

Rafael Santi

Painting by Henry Nelson O'Neill "The Last Moments of Raphael" The dying artist looks and points at his last masterpiece - "Transfiguration", which many researchers consider the pinnacle of Raphael's work.

As an artist, he lived around the same time as Leonardo da Vinci. Despite his short life, he worked a lot, painted many paintings, the most famous of which is the “Sistine Madonna” (Italian: Madonna Sistina). The chambers of the Vatican Palace were also painted by Raphael. The artist's lifetime fame was so great that he was called happy. Raphael lived in luxury and was universally revered. He was the ideal courtier. Ideal appearance, refined manners, ability to maintain learned conversations.

Being spoiled by female attention, he chose as his wife a simple girl, a baker’s daughter with an angelic appearance. Some believe that Psyche and the Sistine Madonna are endowed with her appearance.

Raphael died unexpectedly, after a short illness, on his 37th birthday, April 6, 1520. They say that before his death Rafael said a short"Happy".

Benjamin Franklin

The father of the founder of American politics, Benjamin Franklin. Opened America's first public library. He devoted a lot of time to physics, politics and social activities. So he introduced the designation for charge + and –, which we still use in everyday life (batteries).

In history, he remained the only politician who signed all three documents that marked the formation of the American state. The Treaty of Paris, as well as the Constitution and Declaration of Independence. In the last years of his life, Franklin fought for human rights, for the abolition of slavery, and instructed young people to follow 13 moral values ​​that he himself formulated:

• Temperance
• Silence
• Love of order
• Determination
• Thrift
• Hard work
• Sincerity
• Justice
• Moderation
• Cleanliness
• Calm
• Chastity
• Meekness

The great scientist and politician died at the age of 84. When his daughter asked the 84-year-old seriously ill Franklin to lie down differently so that he could breathe easier, the old man, sensing an imminent end, said grumpily: “Nothing comes easy to a dying person.”

About 20,000 people attended his funeral, despite the fact that the city had a population of about 33,000. Since 1914, Franklin has been featured on all US $100 bills.

Winston Churchill

Premier mi nister and politician of Great Britain. He went down in the history of the twentieth century as a man who created the history of Britain and the peoples of Europe. He was one of the first to realize the danger Hitler's fascism posed to Europe, called on the British to wage an active war against Nazi Germany and supported the Soviet people in this fight.

Churchill was philosophical about death. He said: “I am not afraid of death, but I am going to do it in the best possible way” and also “I am ready to meet the Creator, but I don’t know if the Creator is ready for such a difficult test as meeting me!”

The politician died at the age of 90 from another stroke, in a beautiful estate, next to him was his wife, with whom he lived for no less than 57 years. For his services, Churchill was honored with a state funeral, which turned into a large-scale event in the city, the script for which was written by Winston himself. Until recently, Churchill did not give up bad habits, still smoked a lot of cigars and did not deny himself delicious food. They say his last words were: “I’m so tired of all this.”

Steve Jobs

Billionaire, one of the founders of Apple. A short interview or words spoken by him in the hospital room before his death have appeared online. It is not known whether these were his true words, but this speech touched many.

“I have reached the pinnacle of success in the business world. In the eyes of others, my life is the epitome of success.

However, outside of work, I have little joy. After all, wealth is just a fact of life that I'm used to.

At this moment, lying in a hospital bed and looking back at my entire life, I realize that all the recognition and wealth that I was so proud of have become meaningless in the face of impending death.

In the dark, when I look at the green light from the life support machine and hear the repeating mechanical sound, I feel the breath of God and the approach of death. Now that we have accumulated enough wealth, it’s time to think about completely different issues in life that are not related to wealth...

There must be something more important: perhaps relationships, perhaps art, perhaps childhood dreams...

The relentless pursuit of wealth turns a person into a puppet, which is what happened to me. God gave us feelings to convey his love to every heart, not illusions about wealth.

The wealth that I have accumulated in my life, I cannot take with me. All I can take away are the memories made by love. This is the true wealth that should follow you, accompany you, give you strength and light to move on.

Love can travel a thousand miles. Life has no limit. Go where you want to go. Reach the heights you want to reach. It's all in your heart and in your hands.

You can hire someone to drive you, someone to earn money for you, but no one will bear your illnesses for you.

The material things we lose can still be found. But there is one thing that you will never find if you have lost it, and that is life.

No matter what stage of life we ​​are in right now, there is a day waiting for everyone when the curtain comes down.

Your treasures are your love for your family, your lover, your friends...

It is the last words spoken on a deathbed that often turn out to be an example of concentrated wisdom and perfectly summarize the rich life experience of a person who changed the world.

Simon Bolivar (1783-1830)

“How can I get out of this labyrinth?”

A general who fought for the independence of the Spanish colonies and became the president of Gran Colombia, a state founded on lands liberated from oppression. The national hero of Venezuela and all of Latin America still reminds of himself with portraits on the monetary units of many South American states. The great commander ended his days in ‎peaceful contemplation of the Sierra Nevada mountains.‎

Karl Marx (1818-‎‎1883)

‎“The last words are needed by fools who did not say enough during their lifetime.”

The world-famous German philosopher, political scientist, economist and sociologist Karl Marx was called a prophet by many. The broadest scope of the mind required no less abundant discharge, which is probably why the genius was often noticed with a destructive passion for drinking and smoking. The higher you fly, the more painful it is to fall: for all his glory, Marx died in poverty and illness.‎

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

‎“Killer wallpaper colors! One of us will have to leave."

An Irish poet and writer, a master of romantic style and the hero of the tragic narrative of his own life, Oscar Wilde always perceived the world through the prism of the highest aesthetic sense, which did not change him even before his death. The talented writer suffered numerous persecutions during his lifetime, but his gift of the picturesque word was enthusiastically appreciated by his descendants. Wilde's tombstone is covered with thousands of imprints of kisses, replenished day after day with new expressions of gratitude from fans.‎

Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)

“Well, if it’s necessary...”

An apologist for Norwegian classical music, the author of the soul-stirring drama suites Peer Gynt and Lyric Pieces, Edvard Grieg was incredibly productive in his work, filling the lush Scandinavian folklore with melodies. Unable to tear himself away from his favorite pastime, the seriously ill composer played music until his last day. All of Norway mourned his death.

Isadora Duncan (1877-1927)‎

“Farewell, my friends. I'm going to glory!"‎

The virtuoso ballerina and muse, who gave inspiration to Sergei Yesenin, drove her contemporaries crazy with her impeccable sense of style and self-esteem. Her innovative approach to the art of dance was designed to reflect the beauty of human nature. The death of the prima turned out to be similar to the dramatic finale of the performance - Isadora's scarf flowing through the air hit the axle of the wheel of the car she was driving.

Walt Disney (1901-1966)

‎Kurt Russell

The business tycoon, animator, philanthropist, who colored the childhood of millions of people with magic, was a leading personality of his time. Creating exciting stories during his lifetime, the master left something interesting even after his departure: the note on which Disney wrote his last words contains only the name of actor Kurt Russell, who was only 15 years old at that time. No one, including Russell himself, can explain this fact.‎

Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977)

‎“Why not? After all, it (the soul) belongs to Him."

The career of the great actor began when, at the age of five, he appeared on stage with a song and received a storm of applause from the audience. From that moment on, creativity did not stop until Chaplin’s death. The famous slightly awkward image of a man in a bowler hat and baggy pants has become a real symbol of the heyday of game cinema. Sometimes, to make his gait more angular, Chaplin swapped his right and left shoes. The actor's dying phrase was addressed to the priest, who offered to pray for God to accept his soul. ‎

Elvis Presley (1935-1977)

‎"I hope you're not tired of me"‎

The figure of the star king of the stage has always condensed a wide variety of rumors around him. A lot of intrigues and affairs, problems with drugs, difficult relationships with former friends and a rather eccentric disposition that filled Elvis’s life culminated in an equally scandalous death. No one can say with certainty whether it was natural, although official documents list cardiac arrhythmia.‎

Salvador Dali (1904-1989)

“Where is my watch?”

The wizard of surrealism, who turned traditional art inside out and made the public adore him, Salvador Dali never missed a moment to demonstrate all the facets of his eccentric nature. Being an old man exhausted by illness, even at the very last moment of his life he did not abandon his manner of looking like the master of the situation, searching for his watch instead of concentrating on suffering.

Kurt Cobain (1967-1994)

‎ “It’s better to burn than to smolder”‎

The life of a talented musician, and especially its ending, is a comprehensive illustration of the last words written in his suicide note. Cobain seemed to be walking on the edge of a knife, flirting with death every now and then: collecting firearms, delving into the abyss of drug addiction, escaping from rehabilitation centers, not letting loved ones know about his whereabouts. At the peak of exhaustion from depression, Kurt Cobain shot himself in the forehead while sitting alone in his home.

Hunter Stockton Thompson (1937-2005)

‎"Relax, it won't hurt"

Writer and publicist, founder of the genre of "gonzo journalism" and author of the novel "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas", Hunter Thompson was awarded throughout his life with such characteristics as "rebel", "indomitable" and "rebellious nature" - starting with military service and ending with the much more peaceful everyday life of working in the editorial offices of various magazines and newspapers. The writer reacted to his death with a great deal of balance, writing a suicide note a few days before he shot himself, in which he reproached himself for the greed of the desire to live longer. Thompson's ashes, by his personal will, were loaded into a cannon and scattered in the sky with a volley.