Dying never sounded so good. Learn about the last words of some of historys notable characters, and the context surrounding them. (1). “One Last Drink, Please.” Jack Daniel was an American distiller and founder of Jack Daniel’s Tennessee whiskey distillery. Daniel died of blood poisoning in Lynchburg in 1911. Rumour has it that he contracted an infection from kicking his safe in anger when he could not get it open. However, multiple biographers have refuted this claim. Appropriately, his last words were “one last drink, please.” (2). “Last Words Are for Fools Who Haven’t Said Enough.” Karl Marx was a significant German political theorist, philosopher and economist. He is perhaps best known for his works “The Communist Manifesto” (1848) and Das Kapital (1867). Marx died of complications from a catarrh that he developed in 1881. He died a stateless person. His last words were “last words are for fools who haven’t said enough.” (3). Simon Bolivar was a famous South American political and military leader. He died of tuberculosis at the age of 47 in 1830. His last words were reportedly “Damn it! How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!” (4). “You Will Not Find Me Alive at Sunrise.” Nostradamus was a French apothecary and seer, whose published prophecies became famous worldwide. Born Michel de Nostradame, he worked as an apothecary despite being expelled from university in 1529. He lived while the plague was prominent in Europe. His wife and two children were killed by the plague, and afterwards he travelled Italy with a doctor to try and treat people of the disease. By 1550 he had moved away from medicine and more towards the occult, publishing several almanacs and becoming interested in prophecy. Nostradamus had gout, which by 1566 turned to edema. He reportedly told his secretary Jean de Chavigny the famous last words: “You will not find me alive at sunrise.” The next morning he was found dead next to his bed and a bench.
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