Last Words

It may be a bit of a grim subject, but have you ever thought of the importance of last words?

Last week I was watching How I Met Your Mother, in that episode Marshall’s father passes away. If you haven’t seen the show, it’s not important that you know who Marshall or his father are; however, most of the episode is spent focused on the last words the father told his son. With everyone in the family, recurring lovely last times with their, husband or father, Marshall doesn’t feel that his last conversation with his father was worthy of the magnitude of LAST WORDS. This got me thinking, how important are last words? Or rather what are more impactful the last words or the most memorable words? Are the last words, of a loved one, their most memorable words? Who’s to say, maybe they’re one in the same. And are any last words “bad”? Should we be going around anticipating every conversations end, to be our last? Should we end every conversation with “good” last words? If you were to think back to your last conversation with a loved one, what were your last words? Are you content with those words, were they to be your last? Do you feel that matters, what you say last? Ask your loved ones what they consider your most memorable words to be? Do you remember saying them? Do you feel, that we, as a society put too much pressure on last words? Do we, years down the line, even remember words, or do we remember memories and moments?