'Civilised peoples of the world,' begged one last broadcast, 'we implore you to help us in the name of justice, of freedom... Our ship is sinking.
If you work for or know of an organization that is struggling with the decision to take the survey or, worse yet, has declined to do so, I implore you to help the leadership understand why it is so vitally important for our LGBT family members and friends and for the health of our organizations.
If you're a scientist, a teacher or a physics fan with a knack for explaining big ideas and small particles, we're imploring you to help.
This is obviously a conversation for another day, but it makes for a good time to suggest to you that, if you really want to use your musical super-powers to help artists, everywhere, I would implore you to take a trip to D.C. and help Rep's Nadler and Blackburn urge Congress to push the bills removing all terrestrial radio exemptions through its mucked-up channels.
He may try to push you away or tell you he's fine or doesn't need your help, but I implore you to keep on keepin' on.
Mr Stammers has tweeted: "Please continue your efforts, if I could thank you all individually I would, your help is invaluable I implore you to RT £findmeganstammers".
Around 1,200 people braved cold temperatures and northern Kentucky's first snowfall of the season on Saturday morning to see former secretary of state – and presumptive 2016 presidential candidate – Hillary Clinton implore them to help elect Alison Lundergan Grimes to the US senate.
Her fellow-congregant Hannah, she says, got mad at God, "not because he allowed genocide in Darfur, but because little things happened in her life that she did not like: 'I was upset with him for making me a dorm counselor.' " Vineyarders may implore God to help fellow-members of their church, but otherwise, in Luhrmann's account, pretty much everything seems to be about themselves.
They just sit, quietly, a few pulling out phones and snapping photos as he seems to beg them, implore them, to help him drive this bus.
"Bright before me, the signs implore me, to help the needy and show them the way," reads an old Randy Newman song, which I hope is prophetic.
Del Castillo goes on to implore Guzman to help feed children living on the streets and provide old people passing their last years in institutions with the alcohol they might want to get them through to the end.
