"Um, I know a lot of people´s last words." It was an indulgence, learning last words. Other people have chocolate; I have dying declarations.
"Example?"
"I like Henrik Ibsen´s. He was a playwright."
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"Right, well, he´d been sick for a while and his nurse said to him, ´You seem to be feeling better this morning´, and Ibsen looked at her and said ´On the contrary,´ and then he died.