Comment to friends, as quoted in "Newspaper Columnist Art Buchwald Dies at 81" by Patricia Sullivan in The Washington Post (18 January 2007) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/18/AR2007011800616_pf.html.
“Get well soon, Castro. [pause] Actually, no, don't; die, you bastard!”
Craig Ferguson (1962) Scottish-born American television host, stand-up comedian, writer, actor, director, author, producer and voice a…
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (2005–2014)
“I just don't want to die without a few scars.”
Variant: I don't want to die without any scars.
Source: Fight Club
“Please — please don't kill me — I don't want to die. I just want to have my baby.”
Sharon Tate (1943–1969) actress, victim of murder by Charles Manson followers
Court testimony of Virginia Graham as to what her confessed murderer Susan Atkins (aka Sadie Mae Glutz) had said were among her last words (9 August 1969). Atkins said she responded to this with: "Look, bitch, you might as well face it right now, you're going to die, and I don't feel a thing behind it."
“I'm not afraid to die; I just don't want to be there when it happens”
Andy Warhol (1928–1987) American artist
“It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.”
" Death (A Play) http://books.google.com/books?id=qjRaAAAAMAAJ&q=%22It's+not+that+I'm+afraid+to+die+I+just+don't+want+to+be+there+when+it+happens%22&pg=PA99#v=onepage". <br class="br">Without Feathers (1975)
“I just don't want them to change me, if I'm going to die I still want to be me.”
Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games
Variant: They don't own me. If I'm gonna die, I wanna still be me.
Source: The Hunger Games
“I don't want to die. Please don't let me die.”
Hugo Chávez (1954–2013) 48th President of Venezuela
Last words (mouthed). http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/03/07/heart-attack-killed-suffering-hugo-chavez-head-venezuela-presidential-guard/ <br class="br">2013
