Your last words being "Whoops", probably greatly increases the odds that someone writes about your death

Though it probably also greatly decreases the odds of anyone knowing your last word.

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thesohoriots@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 298d

Roald Dahl, trying to have nice last words, to his family: “You know, I'm not frightened. It's just that I will miss you all so much."

Actual last words, getting hit with a needle of morphine: “ow, fuck!”

ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one · 14 pts · 298d (3 replies)

"Whoopsie daisy. I started a nuclear meltdown."

Whistles and walks away

slazer2au@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 298d (2 replies)

Can someone uwu that sentence?

ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one · 6 pts · 297d (1 reply)

Whoopsie daisy. I stawted a nucweaw mewtdown.

Lightfire228@pawb.social · 6 pts · 297d

UwUpsie daisy

FTFY

Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 298d (1 reply)

If the situation calls for it, I would be too tempted to say:

“What are you gonna do? Shoot me?”

DeLancre@feddit.org · 5 pts · 298d

You cowards, at this distance they can't even hit a barn door.

j4k3@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 298d (2 replies)

One of the super hazy vague memories of the crash that broke my neck and back when 2 SUVs played bumper cars in front of me on a bicycle commute was me saying: "Well that sucks." – Very VERY nearly my last words.

So, from my experience, "Whoops!" is the statement of your murderer. Most people with a kill to death ratio greater than zero probably share this feature.

Krauerking@lemy.lol · 6 pts · 298d (1 reply)

I have also been in a lot of accidents and it's kinda surprising how often it's just "oh no, not again"

After getting hit by a car one time enough to roll up it and off the side my words were "not the worst day I've had" before going to the hospital.

SoGrumpy@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 294d

'Oh no, not again' is something a bowl of petunias would say at the time of reincarnation.

Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 298d (1 reply)

Dead Like Me had a bit about this. Everyone’s last words are documented when they die, and almost all of them are something like “ow,” “what?” or “oh, crap!”

Krauerking@lemy.lol · 4 pts · 298d

Oh my god i forgot about that! Yes. And great show.

Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 298d

How about “hold my beer…”

Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 298d (3 replies)

I'd argue that if you had time to say 'whoops' it probably didn't kill you.

iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 298d

I mean, how pedantic are you being here? If you did something accidentally that, say, cut up a major artery, you can bleed out in seconds but with enough time to say "whoops". So are you arguing that like, it's not the cut/action that led to the cut, but rather the loss of blood that did the actual killing?

Krauerking@lemy.lol · 6 pts · 298d (1 reply)

Air is leaving your lungs anyways. Doesnt take much effort to add some sounds. You would be surprised how long it feels on the dying side.

Themosthighstrange@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 297d

As some one who has died before, I agree

Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 297d
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