Ever a poet, her final words were no different: “I must go in, for the fog is rising.”

Answer Emily Dickinson

Passing away at 55 from heart failure, Emily Dickinson spent her last years confined to her bed. She wrote short notes to communicate, including her last poetic words, “I must go in; the fog is rising.” As it turns out she was right: “Because I could not stop for Death - / He kindly stopped for me."

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