July 14, 2014
Life is a short and fragile thing. While you’re living your own, you might not realize just how delicate it is until you experience tragedy. It’s easy to get caught up in your own life to the point of forgetting that it won’t last forever.
These photos are a good reminder of our own mortality. Shortly after each of these pictures were taken, life-changing tragedy struck. The photos below are the very last pictures ever taken of each of these celebrities before they passed away.
For every picture that you see, there was also a tragedy.
1.) This is the last picture taken of Freddy Mercury in 1991, before he died of bronchial pneumonia resulting from AIDS.
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2.) Mahatma Gandhi was on his was to a prayer meeting when his assassin, Nathuram Godse, shot him.
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3.) Before taking her final flight, Amelia Earhart posted for photos in 1937.
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4.) This photo of Adolf Hitler was taken approximately two days prior to his death. He was standing outside of his Berlin bunker, surveying the damage a bomb had done.
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5.) Accounts of Abraham Lincoln’s last photograph are varied. This picture was takent before his assassination in 1865 and was found in General Ulysses S. Grant’s photo album.
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6.) Albert Einstein poses for a photograph in March of 1955 at his home in Princeton, New Jersey. A month later he died from a aortic aneurysm.
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7.) A week before Amy Winehouse’s death on July 23, 2011, she was spotted walking near her home in North London.
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8.) Heath Ledger smiles on the set of The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus before overdosing on pain killers.
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9.) This is the last known photo of Chris Benoit, taken on a cell phone in Dr. Phil Astin’s office on June 22, 2007. His wife was already dead at the time this was taken.
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10.) The man who shot John Lennon, Mark David Chapman, appeared in the last photo taken of the musician. He was asking for an autograph.
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