You have to lie to soothe the hearts of the loved ones left behind

Kurtz's very last words were"The horror, The horror", but before those was a plea for death, "I am lying here in the dark waiting for death;" and yet before that Kurtz new it was his time to go, He gave Marlow a packet of papers with a photograph. In that afternoon he was lying on his back his eyes closed and said;"Live rightly die die..." Marlow thought that it was giberrish or that it was some speech he was practicing for. So one evening he came in the cabin and and heared Kurtz say I am lying here waiting for death and Marlow said "Oh Nonsence". Marlow blew out the candle and went to the mess hall and a black boy said Mistah Kurtz is dead..... Marlow took it upon himself to deliver the news and the papers that were given to him by Kurtz and at the end of the story he made it to Kurtz's fiancee. The news he brought to her gave him deep sadness and they talked and she finally wanted to know his last words, and Marlow said it was your name he said. I think he told her the lie just to soothe her heart for a little, just knowing it was her he was thinking of with his last breath of life. Although it was a lie I deemed it appropriate