<p>"You see! This is how you die." - Coco Chanel<br>"Shoot straight, you bastards! Don't make a mess of it!" - Breaker Morant<br>"If any of you have a message for the devil, give it to me, for I am about to meet him!" - Lavinia Fisher<br>"I am dying. Please? bring me a toothpick. " - Alfred Jarry<br>Funny, reflective, scornful or delirious, we are fascinated by famous last words because, humanity in extremis, they seem to tell us something a...