This document provides quotes from famous last words of notable figures and an account from Alaska Young about finding her mother after she had a fatal aneurysm when Alaska was 8 years old. Pudge later realizes the internal conflict Alaska must have felt as a child being unable to save her mother and feeling powerless in that moment.

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5. Famous Last Words….

6. I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis. ~~ Humphrey Bogart, actor, d. January 14, 1957

7. I’m bored with it all. ~~ Winston Churchill, statesman, d. January 24, 1965

8. My God. What's happened? ~~ Diana (Spencer), Princess of Wales, d. August 31, 1997

9. I must go in, the fog is rising. ~~ Emily Dickinson, poet, d. 1886

10. It is very beautiful over there. ~~ Thomas Alva Edison, inventor, d. October 18, 1931

11. All is lost. Monks, monks, monks! ~~ Henry VIII, King of England, d. 1547

12. Let's cool it brothers . . . ~~ Malcolm X, Black leader, d. 1966

13. I've had eighteen straight whiskies, I think that's the record. ~~ Dylan Thomas, poet, d. 1953

14. Moose . . . Indian . . . ~~ Henry David Thoreau, writer, d. May 6, 1862

15. "That was a great game of golf, fellers." ~~Bing Crosby, performerd. 1977

16. "Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough." ~~Karl Marx, philosopher d. 1883

17. “God, oh God, I’m so sorry.” ~~Alaska Young, student d. January 10/11, 2005

18. Labyrinth -an intricate combination of paths or passages in which it is difficult to find one's way or to reach the exit.

19. Alaska’s account of mother’s death “The day after my mom took me to the zoo where she liked the monkey and I like the bears, it was a Friday. I came home from school. She gave me a hug and told me to go do my homework in my room so I could watch TV later. I went into my room, and she sat down at the kitchen table, I guess, and then she screamed, and I ran out, and she had fallen over. She was lying on the floor, holding her head and jerking. And I freaked out. I should have called 911, but I just started screaming and crying until finally she stopped jerking, and I thought she had fallen asleep and that whatever had hurt didn’t hurt anymore. So I just sat there on the floor with her until my dad got home an hour later, and he’s screaming, ‘Why didn’t you call 911?’ and trying to giver her CPR, but by then she was plenty dead. Aneurysm. Worst day. I win. You drink.” (p.119)

20. Pudge’s realization of Alaska’s internal conflict “It was the central moment of Alaska’s life. When she cried and told me that she fucked everything up, I knew what she meant now. And when she said she failed everyone, I knew whom she meant. It was the everything and the everyone of her life, and so I could not help but imagine it: I imagined a scrawny eight-year-old with dirty fingers, looking down at her mother convulsing. So she sat down with her dead-or-maybe-not mother, who I imagine was not breathing by then but wasn’t yet cold either. And in the time between dying and death, a little Alaska sat with her mother in silence. And then through the silence and my drunkenness, I caught a glimpse of her as she might have been. She must have come to feel so powerless, I thought, that the one thing she might have done-pick up the phone and call an ambulance- never even occurred to her. There comes a time when we realize that our parents cannot save themselves or save us, that everyone who wades through time eventually gets dragged out to sea by the undertow-that, in short, we are all going.” (p.120)

21. Drinking and Driving Prevention Day “D-Day”

22. FACT: Every 15 minutes in the United States, someone dies because of a drunk driver.

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