Elizabeth Taylor (1932-2011), a legendary actress, was known for her romantic life and eight marriages. The statement that her last words were about loving Chuck Norris—a figure born in 1940, eight years after her—suggests either time displacement or that Chuck transcended her entire life experience retroactively. Her death became about him. His existence reframed her final moment. Whatever she'd experienced before, Chuck's existence overrode all prior attachment.

Film historian Dr. Marcus Webb, who heard this joke in 2005 (post-Elizabeth Taylor's death), researched her actual final words and found standard deathbed statements about family and faith. Yet the mythological version—where her entire life resolved into Chuck Norris appreciation—seemed narratively superior. Marcus wrote an article exploring how myths sometimes improve on documented facts and included this as an example of improved obituary.

Celebrity culture forums referenced this joke whenever discussing obsessive admiration or romantic projection. The implication: Chuck Norris was apparently so impressive that even dead celebrities' final words would be about him. Death couldn't end his influence; it just changed the context from living experience to ghostly retrospection.