Last words preface Khalil Gibran

With the last breath, the last words are uttered. The last words, at times, are statements, questions, quotes, answers, revelation, confessions that may be witty, touching, inspirational, and right down banal.

Last words are pronounced as the person is meeting death. Death….the mystery door to the other world. It remains an enigma as it begins when life ends. The word death, itself involves fear. The fear of death has given rise to a host of speculations about an afterlife and all cults have tried to answer over it. But do we know actually what is death ? According to Osho, we are so afraid of death, that while dying we willingly become unconscious. We lapse into unconsciousness shortly before dying and we die in unconsciousness. We do not realize our death or even our birth. And that is why we do not realize that life is eternal. No more than a resting place between the cycles of birth and death where we discard old clothes and pick up new ones. Moreover, we could say, that thy eternal soul going back to home. The journey of life doesn’t end but it restarts. But still we cling to illusions and don’t understand that death is the universal fact and we all have to meet it one day.

I am forever walking upon the shores,

Betwixt the sand and the foam.

The high tide will erase my footprints.

And the wind will blow away the foam.

But the sea and shore will remain forever.

– By : Khalil Gibran

Here, we bring you a collection of last words, of the rich and famous, the famous but not so rich and even some not so well known. Let’s see how they find death to be.