THE FINALE

OF LIFE
W A S R I Z A L H I P, W A S H E
COOL?

Renalene Mae J. Duka

BSA4

P E T I T I O N F O R PA R D O N O F R I Z A L
The letter plays a very important role in history and
contemporary life, for it proved the following:
1. The love of a mother to a son knows no limits
and boundaries. A mother could do the most
extreme to save the life of her son.
2. The Rizal family hopes against hope that the
Spanish Government could help; after all he
was perceived as a liberal representative of
the crown of spain.

HOW RIZAL WISHED TO BE

BURIED
To My Family,
I ask you for forgiveness for the pain I
caused you, but some day I shall have die and
it is better that I die now in the plentitude of
my conscience.
Dear parents and brothers: Give thanks to
God that I may preserve my tranquility before
my death . I die resigned, hoping that with my
death you will be left in peace. Ah! It is better
to die than to live suffering. Console
yourselves.

 I enjoin you to forgive one another the

little meanness of life and try to live united
in peace and good harmony. Treat your old
parents as you would like to be treated by
your children later. Love them very much in
my memory
Bury me in the ground. Place a stone
and a cross over it. May name, the date of
my birth, and the date of my death. Nothing
more. If later you wish to surround my grave
with a fence, you can do it. No
anniversaries. I prefer Paang Bundok.
Have pity on poor Josephine

Rizals Last Words to His Brother

Paciano
My dear brother,
It has been four years and a half that we
have not seen each other or have we addressed
one another in writing or orally. I do not believe
this is due to lack of affection either on my part
or yours but because knowing each other so
well, we have no need of words to understand
each other.
Now that I am going to die, it is to you I
dedicate my last words to tell you how much I
regret to leave you alone in life bearing all the
weight of the family and our old parents.
I think of how you have worked to enable
me to have a career. I believe that I have tried
not to waste my time. My brother:
If the fruit has been bitter, it is not my fault; it is
the fault of circumstances. I know that you have
suffered much because of me: I am sorry.

 I assure you, brother, that I die innocent of this

crime of rebellion. If my former writings had
been able to contribute towards it, I should not
deny absolutely, but then I believe I expiated my
past with my exile.
Tell our father that I remember him, but how?
I remember my whole childhood, his tenderness,
his love. Ask him to forgive for the pain I caused
him unwillingly.
Your brother,
Jose Rizal

Rizals Last Words to His

Parents
My Most Loved Father,
Forgive me for the pain with which I pay
for your struggles and toils to give me an
education. I did not want this nor did I expect
it. Farewell, Father, farewell!
To my very beloved Mother, Mrs. Teodora
Alonzo
At 6 oclock in the morning of the 30th of
December 1896.
Jose Rizal

The Execution
The court martial found him guilty as charged
and condemned him to death. The decision was
signed by Jose Tagores, president of the
court, and Braulio Rodriguez Nunez, Ricardo
Munoz, Fermin Perez Rodriguez, Manuel
Reguera, Manuel Diaz Escribano, and
Santiago Izquierdo.

On the 28th of December, Polavieja approved

the recommendation and ordered Rizal to be
shot at seven oclock in the morning of the 30th
of december on the field of Bagumbayan.

 December 30, 1896, the day that dawned

over Fort Santiago, was one of the balmiest
in Philippine history.
Rizal was facing execution for speaking out
against Spanish political and economic
denomination in the Philippines. He had
also committed the unpardonable sin of
criticizing the Catholic Church.
Jose Rizal made one final gesture. He
turned to face the firing squad as if to say
I am innocent.
Down to that morning in December 30,
1896, when Rizal was done to death by the
firing squad at Bagumbayan, the pages of
history have run red with the murder of
men of science. +

Letters to Be Opened after His Death

On June 20, 1892, Rizal wrote

two beautiful letters packed with
fate, one to his relatives and
friends, the other to his
countrymen. He sealed them and
on the envelope of each wrote :
To be opened after my Death
He left these letters with his
friend Lorenzo Marquez of
Macao.

The Last Farewell

He wrote the famous poem My Last Farewell
It was written on a small sheet of note paper, folded
lengthwise into a narrow strip and then doubled and
wedged inside the tank of a little alcohol lamp on
which his cooking in the cell had been done.
I have nothing to give you a souvenir except the
cooking lamp Mrs. Tavera gave me while I was in
Paris. ( farewell message to his sister trinidad)
MARIANO PONCE gave the title Mi Ultimo
Adios
In fact it was the time that Bonifacio asked if he
could keep for some copy of Rizals poem Mi
Ultimo Adios in Spanish, so that he could
translate it into Tagalog with the assistance of
Diego Mojica.

 Mi Ultimo Adios may be read as Rizals symbolic

act of bloodletting that dissolves the sorceress
Mother Spain in the figure of the terrestrial
mother: the body is finally freed from the
nightmare of colonized ego.

He was loyal to the Spain to the end, but Spain

was not his Patria Adorada. The first stanza of
MI ultimo Adios leaves no doubt which the
country Rizal meant by Patria Adorada The
Philippines ( Filipinas) was his Patria Adorada,
the Pearl of the Orient Sea and his Lost Eden.