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Originally Posted by peter12
His last words hearkened to his Marxist leanings.
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Once asked about his last words in the context of a deathbed conversion, he said:
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Originally Posted by Hitchens
If that comes, it will be when I am very ill; when I am half demented, either by drugs or by pain. I won’t have control over what I say. [...] I can’t say that the entity, that by then wouldn’t be me, wouldn’t do such a pathetic thing.
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It makes no sense to me to attribute some sort of elevated stock or special meaning to a person's last words. As a person lays dying they're by definition barely a functional human being anymore.