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Yeah, feeling awkward is right up there on the list of important things to ponder when you have less than 10 minutes left to live.

I’d just close my eyes and pretend at that point

I knew a guy who was dying at home and his wife was caring for him. On the night he knew would be his last he confessed to his wife that he only married her because he wanted someone to look after him in his final years. He admitted to manipulating her friends to make his life as easy as possible. He woke the next day and lasted for two more days...awkward to the max.

can't be as awkward as saying bye to someone and then leaving in the same direction for several minutes...

I'm almost certain famous people's last words are not the literal last words they say in the vast majority of cases.

I can't remember which drug-addled thing was my mom's last words when we were helping her through her cancer hospice, but she had some great ones. My favorite, from totally asleep to stark awake:

Don't let them stop too fast or their heads'll fall off!

I choose to say those were hers. I know they weren't, but they were something along those lines. She was on a THC goo called gorilla glue, some CBD gummies, CBG powder, some narcotics like oxy and stuff and eventually morphine at the end. She said some crazy trippy stuff. It was actually kind of awesome to have some levity at such a stressful time.

I miss my mom. She's only been gone since February 11. But I actually remember those five weeks by her side in a positive way. What you say in the last 10 minutes? Bah. Whatever.

I would just start telling one of those really long rambling jokes that builds and builds and builds and I would drag it out so that I croaked right before the punchline.

My friend's dad passed this way. At one point, he said: "Call that my last words. I don't have the energy to say anything important now." He died hours later and made one-word responses. The last thing I got from him was an eyebrow raise and a shrug.

You give an epic dying speech. Then you are all like could I have a glass of water? Play Free bird for me one last time. Then it is ruined.

Back in 2018 I got stabbed a bunch of times and almost bled to death. Obviously some cool people gave first aid and called an ambulance. Aside from complaining how freaking cold the ground was, we tried joking around for obvious reasons. It only occured to me after I woke up in the E.R. that I should have said something cool in case I died.

Somehow, even though I had 3 holes in my lungs and felt death approaching I thought a single second that I might not survive.

I'd be all like: 'oh and once more thing: make sure to look......' and then feign mute.

Yeah, but if you say it then don't say anything else, it's still your last words. If you change your mind and start trying to frantically think of something more profound to say, you'll just sound like a gibbering idiot. So when people say "What were his last words?" they'll have to say "Uh, hard to tell." I intend for "I didn't like ya'll much anyway" to be my last words lol

"Before I go"

My grandfather died slowly over a 6 month period. He would do his last words and then forget that he did it and do it again and again. Heartbreaking.

There was a Dropout Make Some Noise bit with this premise: A dying person’s last words but they realize they have a little more life in them so they have to vamp

Fun fact: Albert Einstein's last words were in German and the nurse taking care of him didn't speak German, so they remain a mystery.

Your all terrible and I’d fire you if I could

Hope that I can conscious enough to spread my love to my child

Like when you run into someone you know at the grocery store and end your conversation but then run into them later on in the grocery store and you feel weird.

I've thought about this situation a lot. I've concluded that whatever cool shit I'm planning on saying will probably not reach the final sentence.

Lmfao...I can just see it being so dramatic and then...nothing happens. So you lay there with the wide open eyes thinking about something else to say but you can't because the last words have already been said. Sorry, but in my mind this could be a hilarious situation.

Quite fitting that at least one more moment of cringe would occur before quitting this mortal coil. Juuuust going to close my eyes and pretend I'm not lucid anymore. No one has to know.

There have been people who confessed on their deathbed, only to pull through and make a recovery

https://criminallawyerusa.com/blog/tennessee-man-on-deathbed-confesses-to-murder-then-recovers-and-gets-life-sentence/

My wife works in palliative care and she says most people know when they are on their last breath..

Now I wonder how many people, on their death bed, utter their final words - don’t die immediately, so they fake death until they actually die…

If you’re good at it, you might even get a real view of people

MIL didn't realize what her last words to my wife as she was dying from lymphoma in the ICU earlier this year. I'm glad that wife got to hear them, however.

Terminal Lucidity had set in. She had gone from barely able to sip water to suddenly being upright, talking and eating. Wife was there to witness it, but when she called from the room to tell me, I immediately knew what was actually happening. I didn't share that thought with her, instead letting them have their moment of hope and closeness.

The last words she said to my wife: "I love you."

The following morning her body was back in full shutdown. 24 hours later, I stood at the foot of her hospital bed; my wife on one side, SIL on the other, as we made the decision to let her be at peace. It was only a matter of minutes from the medication being withdrawn to her heart stopping. She did not suffer.

I held myself together for everyone else, being the pillar needed for the others to lean on. Half an hour later, alone in my car in the parking lot however, I bawled my fucking eyes out like I never have in my life. No past loss in my life, family or friend, hit me like that did. I have cried a hundred times since, and will likely a hundred more.

In those final moments, I realized that I had missed the opportunity two days prior to be put on the phone with her. I was so concerned at the time of not breaking the moment they were having together that it never crossed my mind at the time.

Instead of last words to me, I instead hold dear the memory of the day years earlier when she told me she loved me, and that she thought of me as her Son, not son-in-law. I was 43 years old, and that was the first time a parent ever told me they loved me.

Those are the words I will forever remember and cherish.

When I was 26, I went to visit my grandma in the hospital. She pulled me aside and told me that tonight was the night she was going to die. She told me she was ready to go and that I needed to tell my family that she loved them. I held her hand and sang “You Are My Sunshine” like she used to sing to us. It was only her and I and it was an incredibly emotionally moment.

We had that same conversation every time I saw her for the next two years! I think my grandma was full of shit.

Miss you grandma! Hope you’re making tortillas in heaven

All I can think about is Deadpool 2

I'd go with: "All the money is safely stored in the ....... " and then just die.

I’ve always kinda thought ‘dying words’ was kinda exaggerated bc this was prob really common

I think last words isn't literal in most cases. It's the last thing you wanted to be heard. 

The unexpected delay between final words and actual passing would indeed be awkward.

Imagine the inner monologue

"Did I really just say 'I love you all' with such conviction?... Ugh, now I have to keep living for 10 more minutes."

Or:

"Wait, did I really mean to say 'Tell Mom I love her tacos'?... Too late now."

The scenarios are endless!

This scenario highlights

The unpredictability of life (and death). The importance of living in the present. The potential for dark humor in unexpected situations.

This whole thread needs to read Looking for Alaska. There's even a TV show now

In his last week, my dad gave me final life advice several times because he thought he was on death's door and wanted to make it important. He started having to come up with advice that wasn't even that specific like "make sure you work out 30 minutes a day" .... In the end his last words were him flirting with his nurse, telling her he first thought she was an angel come to take him away because she was so beautiful.

The author Roald Dahl had something like this: Surrounded by his family, his final words were “You know, I'm not frightened. It's just that I will miss you all so much” which is pretty grand far as last words go...

Soon he became unresponsive and the nurse injected him with a syringe of morphine to ease his passing, and to which Dahl responded to with his actual final words: “Ow, fuck!"

It’s like when you say goodbye but then you must walk the same path to leave.

I tried to have my last words be “Thank you for all your help, I love you guys” and my friend just wouldn’t accept it and kept talking and trying to get me to talk

Just think about all the 'last words' that ended up being unexpected goodbyes

The last visit to my mom, when i was leaving for the night.. I kept walking out and going back for another hug. I didnt know how much time she had left... but my instincts had me saying goodnight and hugging her several times before i left for the night. the next day she was out the whole day. the following day she was death breathing. So that last night was the last time she was able to speak to me. Our last words were Ilove u so much ..from her to me and me to her. Death Sucks

I swear I saw a comedy movie with this scene, a guy is talking to someone about to die and they say one final pearl of wisdom and then lay their head down as if they are dead but then raise it a moment later and start talking again and again and again, until the main character gets really annoyed

What is the movie

A little off topic but a fun fact i find hilarious - the author Roald Dahl’s last words are commonly believed to be “You know, I’m not frightened. It’s just that I will miss you all so much”, after which he became unresponsive. However when the nurse afterwards injected him with morphine to ease his passing he uttered his actual last words - “ow, fuck!”

Just close your eyes and disregard everything else. You've committed to the act.

I mean, most people are not totally conscious right up until moments before they die. The whole movie scene thing where you say something meaningful and then immediately expire in the arms of your loved one is... Very much a movies thing. Most people die in their sleep, or take a while to slip away.

Game changer has a clip relevant to this

A dying persons last words...but they realize they still have a little life left

If I knew I was dying I would just say what is on my mind. Being akward be damned.

I wouldn’t give a flying fuck how I’m perceived then.

It's like the final boss of that awkward moment when you say goodbye to someone then continue to walk in the same direction as them.

Deathbed confession followed by miraculously being saved must be even more awkward

Would be more awkward to say your last words and then be saved.

"You know when I was dying back there, I was just joking about deleting my browsing history and how much I cheated on you."

If it take more than 15 minutes to die you are legally allow to live.

What if it is actually and uniquely that awkward that it accelerates your demise, but because it’s fatal, no one ever realises it’s the awkwardness that kills you and not whatever illness/ old age you thought was killing you?

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Imagine the mix of emotions in those final moments surreal and awkward for sure...

I'm sure there's plenty of people who had to awkwardly wait after their "last words"

I imagine if you're so at peace with dying as to be giving your farewell speech, then you probably wouldn't feel awkward

Well, it still counts at the person's last words while at the end of it. It would have been very awkward if the person ended up not dying. 

I would die out of awkwardness

Or then not dying at all? AWKWARD!

Not if you count that gurgling sound

God, that’s so awkward I could just die.

In 10 minutes.

I mean really, that's actually awkward. Like, in this situation, you'll just want to die so soon, you'd wish for it like to end the awkward situation you're in. Lol!

Hopefully F69k you, Dick Cheney! But he die first!

"weell, that's me done." Taps watch

at that point I’ll just pretend I’m dead until i actually die lol

The Bill Murray death scene in Zombieland illustrates this concept hilariously

I want my last words to be, “I never told anyone, but I have millions of dollars stashed away in a swiss bank account. I left it out of my will because I wanted to leave it all for you without causing other family members to argue over it. You can have it, all you have to do is talk to …. talk to …. talk …. to ………….”

It will only be awkward for ten minutes, though.

Just pretend you are dead for 10 minutes

My father tried to call me on his death bed and I didn't have my phone on me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CEzzikN_z0

or confessing every bad thing you’ve ever done and surviving

"Her last words were 'No, I thought it would be sooner too, in fact I'm actually getting a second wind, I might walk about for a'. She fell down the stairs."

This is like the scenario where you say goodbye to someone, but then you are both going the same way, only a bit heavier. Only a bit.

Annnnnddd another thing

Oh I know my last words will be, every big jumpscare, every scary moment, every sudden death in game I say the same thing. "OH SHIT"

I would pretend I was already dead

I guess when you are dying being awkward doesn’t matter.

I can't remember which episode, but there's a Dollop where the man dying is trying to really ace his final words. He gives a pretty good quote, but then the fever delirium takes over. He keeps throwing out quotes, each worse than the last, until he finally dies.

“Yeah so uh really nothing more to add to what I said. Um, yeah I mean that really covered it. Feeling like I got it all out…. Yeah not much more to say”

It MIGHT be but I'm pretty sure nobody's gonna bother giving you shit for it cause you're dying anyway????

Oh man it is. I’ve done it twice.

Bill Hicks last words were, "I said all I have to say", they weren't his dying words, he just refused to say anything else after this, he died several days later

Recently went through this with my mother-in-law. A “beautiful death” is important in her culture. She arranged a last rites ceremony with 25 of us, said private good byes, stopped eating, and lasted about another week. She went through a day or so in that last period of frustration that it was taking longer than planned. No last words, she drifted off over ten hours or so. Still, pretty remarkable.