What were the saddest last words in history?

While Seamus Heaney, the world-famous Irish poet & Noble Prize Winner, was being rushed to the operating room he sent a single text message to his wife with just two words: “Noli Timere”.

This Latin phrase when translated to English means “Be not afraid.”

Heaney passed away not long after.

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Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, was in the garden when he was found on the ground, clasping his chest. Before succumbing to his heart attack, he turned to his wife and said,

“You are wonderful”.

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Erskine Childers was an Irish author, who later became very anti-British during the course of the Irish Civil War.

He vehemently opposed the final draft of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, which marked the end of the War of Independence.

On the 10th of November 1922, he was arrested for carrying an automatic pistol, which was against the recently enacted “Emergency Powers Act”.

Childers was found guilty of the offence and sentenced to death by firing squad.

Before he stood in front of the firing squad, he walked up and shook the hand of every single person that was there. He also made his then 16-year old son to seek out and shake the hand of every single person involved in his death sentence.

When he was ready, Childers took his place, turned to the firing squad and said,

"Take a step or two forward, lads, it will be easier that way."

Childers son, who he made promise, would go on to be the 4th President of Ireland.