Charles Vacca helping a 9 year old point an Uzi machine gun downrange. She'd just fired a single shot; he asked her to go fully automatic and when she did the gun recoiled and a stray bullet hit him in the head.
last images of 11-year-old and his father Garon Maia moments before perish in a plane crash. Shocking footage surfaces of the child at the controls while his father drinks beer.
Staff Sergeant Ryan Krauss last message to his mother, sent on 24th of August 2021. He would succumb to wounds sustained in the suicide bombing at Kabul Airport 2 days later. He is believed to be the last soldier killed in Afghanistan.
The first and last photo of count Magnus Brahe, taken within months of his death from tuberculosis. A daguerreotype made in Sweden in 1844. More info in comments.