Chekhov’s Last Words


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It was a tradition in German medicine that, should a doctor be dying, beyond all hope of recovery, it was the duty of their attending medical colleagues to offer them a glass of champagne. The Russian playwright and author, Anton Chekhov, was a qualified doctor. Dying of tuberculosis in Germany in 1904, this explains Chekhov’s last words: “I haven’t had champagne for a long time.”

Anyone know of other dying words with wine or drink references?



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Paul Erland
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May 21, 2008 at 8:35 pm

How about Humphrey Bogart’s “I never should have switched from scotch to martinis.”

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Joe Thomas Corley
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May 28, 2008 at 9:38 pm

“I have just had eighteen whiskeys in a row. I do believe that is a record.”
~~ Dylan Thomas, poet, d. 1953