I was the last person in my family to speak to my mother before she died. I take her words to heart. For me, they were her last direct words to me. When you be

I was the last person in my family to speak to my mother before she died. I take her words to heart. For me, they were her last direct words to me. When you become a ward of the state, the only people that will directly hear your words are the State, with possibly decades of life having passed since they last spoke to people they knew before they went in. The State chooses to take the responsibility of sharing those last words with the world. Last Words and even the last meal provides us a vision into the world and into their mind's state in their time nearing death. The currently top-rated comment on HN is someone using their last words to try and beg for injustices within the prison system to be looked at. We wouldn't have those words otherwise and the perpetrators would be even more likely to be able to continue their harm than if those words hadn't.