I’m Mr. Beat, and one day I will die.
Heck, one day all of us will likely die. But the good news is that right now we’re all
alive so congratulations to all of us for that. That said, if you’re watching this right now and
you’re dead, comment below. You’re not dead to me! Anyway, I’m YouTube’s American Presidents
guy now, apparently, and breaking news 39 American Presidents have died. Now,
some of them have been dead for awhile. In this video, we’re going to look at how
every President in American history died. I would argue that being President is
the most dangerous job in the world. 18% of them have died while on the job.
9% of them were assassinated. In fact, there was a period of about 122 years in
which EIGHT Presidents died WHILE IN OFFICE. Now, you could say that Presidents
tend to be older when they take office, and that is a fair point. Still, it’s no wonder the President now has
an entire Secret Service team of thousands to protect them. Oh, and an entire White House
Medical Unit to take care of all their medical needs. It's a dangerous and STRESSFUL job. I
mean, just look at these before and after photos. While most of us hope for painless
deaths...ya know...like dying in our sleep….tragically many American Presidents
died horrible, extremely painful deaths. Oh, and while we’re at it, we might as well look
at the supposed last words of every President, even if sometimes those last words
are, like, totally not profound at all. And let’s go in chronological order at
time of death instead of when they held office to mix it up a bit. But uh...yeah...George Washington, our first
President, was indeed our first President to die. He likely died of epiglottitis, which is
the inflammation of the epiglottis, or that little flap thingy at the base of the tongue that
prevents food from getting into your windpipe. The doctors who treated him didn’t quite know what it
was, though, and just tried bloodletting. He ended up losing around 40% of his blood before he died.
He was 67, and his last words were “‘Tis well.” The second President to die was Thomas Jefferson,
the third President. The third President to die was John Adams, the second President, and...crazy
thing...they both died on the exact same day, which was July 4, 1826, which was the 50th
anniversary of the country. The two had a close friendship that went back to when they
both led in the Continental Congress during the American Revolution. That said, later on
they were bitter political rivals for a while. In their later years, they once again became
besties and wrote to each other regularly. Jefferson apparently had a slow, painful death,
and was bedridden for his final months. What officially caused his death were really
bad infections in his bloodstream. I mean, apparently he had urine in his blood related
to having severe kidney damage. On top of that, he had pneumonia. His last words were “No,
doctor, nothing more,” although before that he had supposedly said “This is the Fourth.” John
Adams apparently died of heart failure, and his death was more sudden than Jefferson’s. Unaware
that Jefferson had died just hours before him, his last words included “Thomas Jefferson
survives.” Jefferson was 83 and Adams was 90. The fourth President to die also died on
July 4th. No joke, princess. James Monroe, the Fifth President, died from tuberculosis
and heart failure exactly five years after Jefferson and Adams. He was 73. His last words
referred to HIS good friend James Madison, the Fourth President. They supposedly were:
“I regret that I should leave this world without again beholding him.” There’s no
solid evidence he ever said that, though. Madison was the next President to die, dying
almost five years after Monroe, on June 28th, 1836. He almost died on July 4th, too, and
his doctors actually tried to get him to take stimulants to prolong his life until then. Anyway,
he also died of heart failure. He was 85. Before he died, one of his nieces asked him what was
wrong. He supposedly replied, “Nothing more than a change of mind, my dear. I always talk better
lying down.” So yeah, those were his last words. William Henry Harrison, the sixth President to
die, was the first to die in office, just a month into his presidency. He was 68. It’s a common
misconception that he caught a cold that turned into pneumonia after giving a really long speech
at his inauguration and refusing to wear a jacket in chilly weather. Well, he DID give a two-hour
speech at his inauguration. And he DID not wear a jacket on a chilly day. However, he didn’t get
sick until more than three weeks later. And yes, the official cause of his death was pneumonia.
However, 173 years later experts argued that he actually caught typhoid from bacteria in the water
supply. His last words were “Sir, I wish you to understand the true principles of the government.
I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more.” Andrew Jackson was the next President to die. He
had survived so much crazy stuff his entire life, but ultimately his heart failed him on June
8, 1845. He was 78. At the time of his death, he also suffered from edema, which is the buildup
of fluid in the body’s tissue. On his deathbed, after reacting to his family crying around him,
his last words were “What is the matter with my dear children? Have I alarmed you? Oh, do not cry.
Be good children and we will all meet in Heaven.” Three years later, the sixth President, John
Quincy Adams, died from a stroke at the age of 80. He had worked in Congress up until his
death, and his last words were “This is the last of Earth. I am content.” Future President
Abraham Lincoln was there when he died. James Polk died far too young. He was
only 53 when he died from cholera, likely from drinking contaminated water.
He died just over three months after he left office. It was crazy to see
how quickly his health deteriorated, because as President he was energetic
and passionate. He died with his wife, Sarah at his side, and his last words were: “I
love you, Sarah, for all eternity, I love you.” Next was Zachary Taylor, who was the
second President to die while in office, less than a year and a half after swearing in. He
died from gastroenteritis, or inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract. Us Americans call it the
“stomach flu” for some reason. It must have been painful for him. It’s worth noting that there
were theories that he may have been poisoned, but analysis of his remains in 1991
could find no proof of that. Still, some historians think it’s a possibility.
Taylor’s last words were: “I am about to die. I expect the summons very soon. I have
tried to discharge all my duties faithfully. I regret nothing, but I am sorry
that I am about to leave my friends.” Two former Presidents died in 1862, at the height
of the American Civil War: A Yankee and a rebel. First, the 10th President, John Tyler, in January,
and later the 8th President, Martin Van Buren in July. No, not July 4th. Tyler died from a
stroke. He was 71. Shortly before he died, he took a sip of brandy and told his doctor, “I
am going.” The doctor replied “I hope not, Sir.” Tyler then responded, “Perhaps it is best.” Those
were his last words. He’s the only President to be buried with a Confederate flag instead of an
American flag, by the way. Van Buren died from heart failure brought on by bronchial asthma. He
was 79, and had lived to see eight more Presidents succeed him in the office after he left it.
That’s still the record, although if Jimmy Carter sticks around a few more years...Supposedly
his last words were “There is but one reliance.” The next President to die was the first
assassinated in office. When Abraham Lincoln and his wife and friends were watching a show at
Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C., John Wilkes Booth came up behind Lincoln, who was laughing
hysterically in reaction to the show, and shot him in the head, at point-blank range. After going
into a coma for eight hours, Lincoln died the next morning. He was 56. I have an entire video about
the assassination if you’ve got some extra time to watch. We don’t know his last words for sure,
but one account says they were “She won’t think anything about it.” That was a response to Mary,
Lincoln’s wife, after she asked him what Miss Harris, one of their friends sitting next to them,
would think of her hanging on to him so much. Three years later, James Buchanan died
from both respiratory failure and rheumatic gout. He was 77. Some say his last words
were “Oh, Lord God Almighty, as thou wilt!” but honestly I’m not that convinced they were.
Seems a little too dramatic for me. Just saying. Franklin Pierce died the next year from
inflammation of the stomach. He had been suffering from liver cirrhosis for several years
yet had drunk alcohol heavily anyway. So yeah, basically... alcohol killed him. I’ve covered
on this channel before how tragic his life was, and it’s even the chorus of the song I made
about him (Tragic life of a doughface), but let’s add to the tragedy, shall we? He
died alone, with no family members present, and that’s why we don’t know his last
words. We do know he was 64 when he died. Millard Fillmore was next. He died from a stroke
at the age of 74. His last words supposedly were “The nourishment is palatable,” referring
to a bowl of soup he had just finished. Even though I doubt these were his last
words, it’s fun to pretend they were. The next year, Andrew Johnson also died from
a stroke. He was 66, and was still an active U.S. Senator representing Tennessee at the time.
Also at the time, he was the only surviving past President. Uh...yeah...few can agree
about what his last words were, so I’m not gonna speculate on this one. James Garfield was the second President to
be assassinated while in office. However, if he had competent doctors, perhaps he would have
survived. Just four months into his Presidency, a mentally ill fellow named Charles Guiteau
came up to Garfield and shot him twice, once in the back and once in the arm. “My God,
what is this?” Garfield shouted afterward, but those would not be his last words. Most
people don’t know that after he was shot, Garfield was slowly starting to recover before
his doctors screwed things up. While trying to get his bullet out with unsterilized fingers
and tools, they caused a severe infection. Two months after getting shot, Garfield died from
septic shock. His last words were to his friend, General David Swaim. Clutching the tremendous
pain in his chest, he said, “Oh, Swaim, can’t you stop this? Oh, oh, Swaim!” It must
have been a painful death indeed. He was just 49. Ulysses Grant also had a slow, painful
death. At 63, he died from throat cancer after suffering from it for at least a year.
His last words, or...uh..WORD, was “water.” The next year, Chester Arthur died from a stroke
at the age of 57. We don’t know his last words. The next President to die was Rutherford
Hayes. After suffering from a heart attack, he died from heart disease at the age
of 70. His last words were “I know that I’m going where Lucy is.” By the way, Lucy
was his beloved wife. Now, where was she? Well, frankly, I think she was in
the bathroom. Wait what’s that? Oh, heaven. Hayes thought she went to
heaven, so he was going there, too. Benjamin Harrison was next. He got influenza, which then turned into pneumonia. He died
from it at the age of 67. Now his last words make sense to me. They were “Are the doctors
here? Doctor, my lungs…” Yeah pneumonia sucks. The next President to die was the third one to be
assassinated while in office. That’d be William McKinley. After serving as President for four
and a half years, a zealot named Leon Czolgosz shot him twice in the stomach. Czolgosz
thought McKinley was a symbol of oppression and government bad and stuff. McKinley appeared to
be recovering in the days following the shooting, but then took a turn for the worse. He ended up
dying from gangrene, a severe type of tissue death caused by a lack of blood supply. Do me a favor
and don’t Google pictures of it. You just did, didn’t you? Anyway, his last words were “We are
all going, we are all going. God’s will be done, not ours.” He was responding to his wife
Ida, who had said, “I want to go, too.” Seven years later, Grover Cleveland, the 22nd
and 24th President, was the 24th President to pass away. He suffered from a heart
attack and died at the age of 71. He had had ongoing health problems, suffering
from coronary sclerosis and intestinal obstruction. His last words were: “I have tried
so hard to do right.” Me too, Grover. Me too. Teddy Roosevelt was next. His death
was a bit of a shocker, to be honest. On the night of January 5, 1919, he had been
struggling to breathe. He saw his doctor, who gave him some kind of treatment, and
after that Roosevelt felt better and then went to bed. However, he never woke up. He died
in his sleep, which is why his last words were “Please put out that light, James,” which he
had spoken to his family servant, James Amos, before he drifted off. The Vice President
at the time, Thomas Marshall, famously said, “Death had to take Roosevelt sleeping, for if he
had been awake, there would have been a fight.” It’s assumed he died from a coronary occlusion
caused by a blood clot. He was just 60. Warren Harding was the sixth President to die
in office but third to die in office of natural causes. When he was traveling along the West
Coast, he suddenly experienced severe stomach and chest pains. After some rest he began to
recover and traveled down to San Francisco, but down there he began to feel like crap again
and became bedridden at the Palace Hotel. On August 2, 1923, his wife Florence was
reading a flattering article about him from The Saturday Evening Post. After she paused,
he told her, “That’s good. Go on, read some more.” Those were his last words, as he had a
dramatic heart attack right afterward. He died at the age of 57, just less than
2 and a half years into his Presidency. Woodrow Wilson died just a few
months after Harding of a stroke, although he had already suffered from
a severe stroke a few years before when he was President that nearly killed him then.
In fact, afterward he was partially paralyzed and nearly blind because of it. Supposedly,
his last words were: “When the machinery is broken...I am ready.” He was 67. Today he’s the
only President buried within Washington, D.C. Next to die was William Taft. Taft is known as the
heaviest President in American history, but in his final years he made a significant effort to get in
shape, exercising regularly and eating healthier foods to lose around 100 pounds. He also worked
right up until right before he died as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. However, his health
had declined beginning in the late 1920s. He died of inflammation of the liver and heart disease
when he was 72. We don’t know his last words. Calvin Coolidge died of a heart attack
at the age of 60. His death was sudden and unexpected. Apparently his
last words were “Good morning, Robert.” Robert was a carpenter
who had been working on his house. Franklin Roosevelt was the seventh
President to die in office, but that was after he had been re-elected a
FOURTH time. When he died at the age of 63, supposedly from a stroke, he had been in
office for more than 12 years. Now, I say “supposedly” since some historians
argue the real cause was melanoma, a type of skin cancer. His last words
apparently were “I have a terrific headache.” Next to die was John F. Kennedy, the most
recent President to die in office and fourth assassinated. His death is arguably the
most famous death of all the Presidents, and right now you can search online and see
footage of it. He died from gunshot wounds, and it was dramatic...in front of what seemed
like the entire world as he paraded through Dealey (dee lee) Plaza in Dallas, Texas on
November 22, 1963. Now, we’re not going to get into all the theories about who REALLY killed JFK,
but according to the Warren Commission and most historians, undoubtedly the main dude responsible
was Lee Harvey Oswald, who was murdered himself just three days later. Public opinion polls have
demonstrated that most Americans still don’t believe the official version tells the whole
truth about what really went down with JFK’s death. His last words were “No, you certainly
can’t.” He was responding to Nellie Connally, the wife of then Texas governor John
Connally. She had said before that, “You certainly can’t say that the people
of Dallas haven’t given you a nice welcome, Mr. President.” At just 46, John F. Kennedy was
the youngest President to die in American history. Herbert Hoover died the next year. He had gone
through several health problems the last couple of years of his life, but the official cause
of his death was massive internal bleeding. We don’t know his last words, but he did live to the
old age of 90. A pretty good run there, Hoover. The grim reaper’s next visit was to Dwight D.
Eisenhower’s house. He died from heart failure at the age of 78. He had had heart problems for a
while, and famously suffered from a heart attack while he was President. His last words were
supposedly “I want to go. God take me.” Harry Truman was the next to die. His organs had
failed and his blood pressure went extremely low after suffering from severe pneumonia.
He was 88. We don’t know his last words. Lyndon Johnson died less than a month after
Truman, despite not first serving as President until ten years after Truman left office. LBJ,
who smoked heavily for much of his adult life, died from a heart attack at the
age of 64. His last words were, “Send Mike immediately.” Mike was his
Secret Service agent who was assigned to his Texas ranch. By the time Mike
arrived, Johnson was already dead. The next President wouldn’t die until more than
21 years later. That would be Richard Nixon, who died from a stroke at the age of 81. His
last word makes a LOT of sense. It was, “Help.” Ronald Reagan was the next President to die,
dying from pneumonia after long struggling with Alzheimer’s disease, which he was first
diagnosed with in 1994. As horrible as Alzheimer’s disease is, remember Reagan nearly became the
fifth President assassinated while in office but survived a gunshot wound back in 1981. We
don’t know Reagan’s last words, but he was 93. Two years later, Gerald Ford died officialy of arterioscelerotic cerebrovascular disease
and diffuse arteriosclerosis. Ok, look, he had heart issues, ok? He was also 93,
and we also don’t know his last words. And finally, the most recent President to die was
George H.W. Bush, who died of Parkinson’s disease on November 30, 2018. He was 94, at the
time the longest-lived American President, but that distinction is now held by
Jimmy Carter. Bush’s son, George W. Bush, who himself was President, reported that
his dad’s last words were “I love you too.” In conclusion, you may have noticed
that most American Presidents have lived rather long lives. Even though it’s supposedly
the most dangerous job in the United States, Presidents have historically lived longer than
the average American. The average lifespan for Americans is currently 78.9, but in 1860, it
was just 39.4, ya know...due to so many children dying back then. The average lifespan for all
39 American Presidents who have died is 71.1, but remember that goes back to 1797. 24 of
the 35 Presidents who died of natural causes lived longer than the average life expectancy
of their time. If you just look at Presidents who have died over the past 50 years, the average
lifespan number for Presidents goes up to 85.5. Plus, look at the six Presidents
who are still alive. They’re old, man! Especially the aforementioned Jimmy
Carter, who is currently 97 years young. And then there’s the current President, Joe
Biden. The moment he was sworn into office, he was already the oldest President in American history.
He recently turned 79, and yep he’s already expressed interest in running for re-election,
even though he’ll be 82 when that happens. Anyway, that’s how every President
died. Congratulations for staying alive through this whole video. Remember, most
of the Presidents died from strokes, so watch that blood pressure! Oh, and don’t
forget to buckle your safety harnesses. As you can tell by which
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