"My dear Schur, you remember our first talk. You promised to help me when I could no longer carry on. It is only torture now, and it has no longer any sense."
(After years of suffering from cancer of the jaw, he convienced his personal physician to give him several large doses of morphine for the pain. He fell into a coma and died the next day.)
"Never felt better."
(Became ill after returning from a USC-UCLA football game. A doctor prescribed bed rest, a restricted diet, and nursing care. After sleeping most of the next morning, his nurse asked, "How are you?")
"It's very beautiful over there."
(Suffering from re-occuring pneumonia and semi-unconscious, his wife, Mina, ask "Are your suffering?" to which he replied, "No, just waiting." Then looked out of his bedroom window and softly spoke his last words.)
"KHAQQ calling Itasca. We must be on you, but cannot see you. Gas is running low."
(After taking off from New Guinea, her plane mysteriously disappeared.)