[Takeda Shingen]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

"Ain't losing your nerve, are you Joe?"
-Tom Horn, legendary indian fighter and scout, to county clerk Joseph Cahill, who helped him mount the scaffold at his hanging for a murder he probably didn't commit.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive...D9415B838CF1D3

I always thought that was one of the more gritty ways to go out.