Harry Harbord "Breaker" Morant

Shoot straight you bastards and don't make a mess of it!

Executed by firing squad.

Harry Harbord "Breaker" Morant 1902

Marie Antoinette, Queen of France

Farewell, my children, forever. I go to your Father.

Executed by guillotine.

Monsieur, I beg your pardon.

Spoken to the executioner, after she stepped on his foot.

Marie Antoinette, Queen of France October 16, 1793

Louis XVI of France

I die innocent of all the crimes laid to my charge; I Pardon those who have occasioned my death; and I pray to God that the blood you are going to shed may never be visited on France.

Executed by guillotine

Louis XVI of France January 21, 1793

Saddam Hussein

There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is God's messenger.

Executed by hanging, at Camp Justice in the Baghdad suburb of Khadimiya

Saddam Hussein December 30, 2006

Jose Rizal

Consummatum Est (it is finished)

This last words were those of Jesus Christ before he got shot at Bagumbayan

Jose Rizal, December 30, 1896

Virginia Woolf

I feel certain that I'm going mad again. I feel we can't go thru another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices

Suicide note

Virginia Woolf March 28, 1941

Lupe Velez

To Harald, may God forgive you and forgive me too but I prefer to take my life away and our baby's before I bring him with shame or killing him, Lupe.

Suicide note.

Lupe Velez December 13, 1944

Hunter S. Thompson

"Football Season Is Over."
No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years past 50. 17 more than I needed or wanted. Boring. I am always bitchy. No Fun for anybody. 67. You are getting Greedy. Act your old age. Relax This won't hurt.

Hunter left the note for his wife, Anita. He shot himself four days later at his home in Aspen, Colo., after weeks of pain from a host of physical problems that included a broken leg and a hip replacement.

The writer's ashes were blown into the sky in Woody Creek, Colo., amid fireworks on Aug. 20.

Hunter S. Thompson, February, 2005

George Sanders

Dear World, I am leaving you because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool - good luck.

Suicide note.

George Sanders April 25, 1972

Freddie Prinze

I must end it. There's no hope left. I'll be at peace. No one had anything to do with this. My decision totally.

Suicide note.

Freddie Prinze January 29, 1977

Terry Kath

Don't worry, it's not loaded.

Suicide playing Russian roulette.

Terry Kath January 23, 1978

Michael Jackson

I'm better off dead. I'm done

How Michael Jackson predicted his death six months ago

Michael Jackson June 2009

Chris Chubbuck

And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts, in living color, you're about to see another first - an attempted suicide.

Shot herself during broadcast.

Chris Chubbuck July 15, 1974

Robert E. Howard

All fled--all done, so lift me on the pyre;
The feast is over, and the lamps expire.

Suicide note.

Robert E. Howard June 11, 1936

Jon Erik Hexum October 18, 1984

Lets see if this will do it.

Accidental suicide as he shot himself with a blank-loaded pistol on the set of TV spy show "Cover Up." The concussion forced a chunk of his skull into his brain; he died six days later.

Jon Erik Hexum October 18, 1984

Sergei Esenin Dec. 28, 1925

Goodbye, my friend, goodbye
My love, you are in my heart.
It was preordained we should part
And be reunited by and by.
Goodbye: no handshake to endure.
Let's have no sadness -- furrowed brow.
There's nothing new in dying now
Though living is no newer.

Written in his own blood, and given to a friend the day before he hanged himself.

Sergei Esenin Dec. 28, 1925

George Eastman

To my friends: My work is done. Why wait?

Suicide note.

George Eastman March 14, 1932

Kurt Cobain

"Frances and Courtney, I'll be at your altar. Please keep going Courtney, for Frances for her life will be so much happier without me. I LOVE YOU. I LOVE YOU."

Kurt Cobain, musician, d. April 8, 1994