15 funny last words that are morbidly hilarious

John Sedgwick was shot mid-sentence and died almost instantly. It was an ironic end for one of the best officers of the Union Army.

This was the actor and comedian’s response when asked why he was reading the bible on his deathbed. He was a popular entertainer, known for his hard-drinking, humorously cantankerous character – including a dislike of children and dogs!

When Bob Hope’s wife asked him where he wanted to be buried, this was his funny answer. He was an incredibly popular actor, comic and entertainer in the 1940s, and he used his final moments to crack one last joke.

Oscar Wilde, author of The Picture of Dorian Gray, was famously flamboyant. One of the most famous LGBTQ writers in history, Wilde was imprisoned in 1895 for being gay, which was criminalised as ‘gross indecency’ in England. Though his time in prison was unjust, these funny last words prove it didn’t steal his sense of humour – or his sense of style.

Here’s what not to say when someone comes out as LGBTQ+.

Andrew Bradford was an early American printer. In 1719, he printed the first newspaper in Philadelphia, which was only the third newspaper in the colonies. In 1741, he also printed the very first Colonial magazine – Reader’s Digest owes him a lot! It’s fitting that his last words were print-worthy.

Richard Feynman won a Nobel Prize for his work in theorising quantum electrodynamics. He also worked on the development of the atomic bomb and on investigating what went wrong in the Challenger explosion.

But even though he helped create quantum physics, if he thought dying was boring, he must not have heard about these funny last words. So who really wins?

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Source: RD.com