They say that "holy men, at their dead, have divine inspiration"
(Shakespeare, I think). Do they? Read the following famous last words
(the real ones¹)

I shall hear in heaven -- Ludwig Van Beethoven

I have offended God and mankind because my work did not reach the quality it
should have -- Leonardo da Vinci

Such is life -- Ned Kelly, Australian Outlaw, who was hanged in 1880.

Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven't said enough -- Karl Marx

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing
whatever to do with it -- William Somerset Maugham, Author

They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist ... -- General John Sedgwick, Union
commander in the American Civil War, shot while looking over a parapet at enemy
lines.