When being a man of words, than the last words should also be the ones to remember. What does actually happen in that moment, no body knows. Departing with the life as you know is a mystery everyone wants to figure up. Last words are something people like to retell, like they have some secret meaning and will help us in knowing what to expect, and not to be feared with transience and finality.

Ernest Hemingway, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954, suffered from alcoholism and depression. He was receiving treatment in Ketchum, Idaho for high blood pressure and liver problems — and also electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) for depression and continued paranoia. He attempted suicide in spring 1961, after what he had ETC treatments, but he committed suicide (shot himself) on July 2, 1961. His last words to his wife before he killed himself were these:

J. M. Barrie, a Scottish writer, today best remembered for writing Peter Pan, dyed of pneumonia and his last words were:

Frank Baum, best known for his Wonderful Wizard of Oz had very specific last words considering the Oz world, his best known piece:

Edgar Allan Poe was suspected to died from delirium tremens, heart disease, epilepsy, syphilis, meningeal inflammation,cholera and rabies. To these days it will be a mystery about his death. Because he was found on the streets of Baltimore delirious. He was taken to hospital where he died next morning. ” Poe was never coherent long enough to explain how he came to be in his dire condition, and, oddly, was wearing clothes that were not his own. Poe is said to have repeatedly called out the name “Reynolds” on the night before his death, though it is unclear to whom he was referring. ” (quote from wiki). His last words were:

Jane Austen, who completed in her life time six novels, dyed young from bovine tuberculosis, a disease (now) commonly associated with drinking unpasteurized milk. Her last words to her sister, Cassandra, who asked her if she wanted anything, were these:

Hunter S. Thompson, a journalist as long as writer, was known for his Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. While suffering of health problems he committed suicide, at the age of 67. The last word he written were these:

Tomas Hobbes, an English philosopher, best known for his book Leviathan, had to die with some great words:

Mark Twain, the famous The Adventures of Tom Sawyer writer, was very interested in parapsychology, and has foresaw his brother Henry’s death in a vivid and detailed dream (which came to pass) and even predicted the timing of his own death with some accuracy. His last word were to his daughter Clara:

Alfred Jarry, French surrealist play-writer. Lived and died in France. Dyed of tuberculosis, aggravated by drug and alcohol use. It is said that these were his last words:

Henrik Ibsen, a Norwegian play-writer had some memorable words on his dying bed. To the response of a nurse who said that he was a little bit better, he said:

Anton Chekhov, Russian writer, who was dying from tuberculosis, and to whom doctor gave champagne to ease the pain, said these last words:

Louisa May Alcott, was an American novelist, who thought she had meningitis and that she is dying from that, actually died from mercury poison, and her last words were these:

Jean Cocteau, French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, playwright, artist and filmmaker. Known also as a close friend to Pablo Picasso. And the words he said were:

Hans Christian Andersen, Danish fairy tale writer, fell out of his bed and was severely hurt. He never fully recovered, and his last words were:

H.G. Wells, English science fiction author, had the words everyone would say if not feeling well and there is a lot of people around:

Leo Tolstoy, a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short stories. Tolstoy died in 1910, at the age of 82. He died of pneumonia at the train station. His last words were as his life and his writing:

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer, and his influence spread across Europe. His last words were so him. Since he had only one wish to be remembered for his work of color:

Washington Irving, America’s first genuine internationally best-selling author, were really impatient ones:

W.G. Fields, play-writer who had an affair with Carlotta Monti, an actress. Has even on his dying bed mentioned her:

Dylan Thomas, was a Welsh poet and writer who wrote exclusively in English. In his biography it was said that he had drinking problems. His last words were:

Charles Dickens, English writer dyed of a stroke, the second one he had. Since he fell his last word were referring to where to put him:

Henry David Thoreau, dyed from tuberculosis. His last word were:

Voltaire, was not the most popular one when talking to church. While he was torched and a priest asked him to renounce the Satan, it is said that these were his last words:

George Bernard Shaw, Irish play-write, He is the only person to have been awarded both a Nobel Prize for Literature (1925) and an Oscar (1938). His last words were:

James Joyce, Irish novelist and poet. He died and was buried in Switzerland.