Usually that phrase is used in a mocking manner to someone who has made a promise that is not likely to be kept.  Someone says, “I promise I’ll bring that chainsaw over and cut that wood.”  “Yeah, famous last words,” we say, especially if we’ve heard that promise four or five times before.  There is another category of famous last words that you can Google.  There are numerous lists of famous people and their last words.  Some are funny, some are sad, some are not repeatable on a church website.  John Wesley once said, “Our people (Methodists) die well.”  My experience over the past 30 years of ministry has been that people who know Christ as Savior and have walked with Him actually do die well.  What I mean is that they have a gracious spirit and gracious words as they prepare to make passage from this life to the next.  I certainly saw this in Bob Pendell’s life as he made his passage to the “forever life.”  This gracious spirit is true to our Founder.  This Sunday we’ll be studying the seven sayings from the cross.  Virtually everything Jesus said had other people in mind.  His words drip with genuine mercy.  What else would we expect?  Paul wrote, “Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others. Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus…”  A person’s true character is magnified in suffering and when Jesus was suffering what was magnified by way of Scriptural account is incredible.   He wasn’t different in death than He was in life.  We won’t be either.  The profane and cynical in life are generally profane and cynical in death.  Since we are all on a “trajectory of becoming” we should probably pay attention to what we are doing and saying now.  When we make our passage and say our final words, more than likely they will be in consistent with who we have become along the way.  Let us run to Jesus and learn from Him how to walk and talk in the way of life…right on into death.