# I Found My Epitaph **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 31, 2013, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-found-my-epitaph/659773 "2013-05-31T05:43:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![SandyHook](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dec6dc/32.png) [@SandyHook](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SandyHook)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2013, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-found-my-epitaph/659773/41 "2013-06-01T23:08:29Z")
Ms Hook and I found an interesting one in a cemetery in El Paso, TX Miss on you pister if you think your so mucking fuch. It was for some doctor who died in the early 2000s, think he was a dentist. ---
**Author:** ![Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/face_intentionally_left_blank/32/288_2.png) [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2013, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-found-my-epitaph/659773/42 "2013-06-02T06:44:12Z")
Either, “Well, that sucked.” or “Fuckin’ Tennessee.” I’m pretty sure this state will be the death of me, and even if it isn’t, I’m inclined to blame it on general principle and in retaliation for perceived slights. Late addition: “I hadn’t really prepared for this eventuality.” ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2013, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-found-my-epitaph/659773/43 "2013-06-02T13:10:35Z")
Whatever happened to an old fashioned: **GOOD RIDDANCE** ? ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2013, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-found-my-epitaph/659773/44 "2013-06-02T13:15:15Z")
“My only regret is that I had bonitis” ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2013, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-found-my-epitaph/659773/45 "2013-06-02T23:11:42Z")
If you can read this, I’m looking up your skirt. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2013, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-found-my-epitaph/659773/46 "2013-06-05T23:21:36Z")
I’m not sure what I want on my headstone but when I die, I want to be thrown out of a plane wearing a Superman costume. ---
**Author:** ![retsin2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@retsin2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/retsin2000)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2013, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-found-my-epitaph/659773/47 "2013-06-06T00:17:44Z")
Is it hot in here or is it just me? ---
**Author:** ![Scubaqueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@Scubaqueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scubaqueen)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2013, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-found-my-epitaph/659773/48 "2013-06-06T18:58:08Z")
BRB ---
**Author:** ![Lukeinva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lukeinva/32/17872_2.png) [@Lukeinva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lukeinva)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2013, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-found-my-epitaph/659773/49 "2013-06-06T19:34:07Z")
LOL ---
**Author:** ![Boulter\_s\_Canary](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Boulter\_s\_Canary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boulter_s_Canary)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2013, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-found-my-epitaph/659773/50 "2013-06-06T22:11:54Z")
Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2013, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-found-my-epitaph/659773/51 "2013-06-07T01:36:31Z")
“Still better than Florida”. ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2013, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-found-my-epitaph/659773/52 "2013-06-07T03:49:46Z")
“Old eoungh to know better; young enough to do it anyway.” Tripler It’s my personal motto. ---
**Author:** ![Gretel\_burps](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ea666f/32.png) [@Gretel\_burps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gretel_burps)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2013, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-found-my-epitaph/659773/53 "2013-06-07T05:58:21Z")
Tonight we dine in hell!! ---
**Author:** ![Aghris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecccb3/32.png) [@Aghris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aghris)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2013, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-found-my-epitaph/659773/54 "2013-06-07T14:05:27Z")
“I’d like to get out now, please.” ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2013, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-found-my-epitaph/659773/55 "2013-06-08T04:13:03Z")
" Ask not for whom the velcros. It cros for thee. " ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2013, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-found-my-epitaph/659773/56 "2013-06-08T05:50:54Z")
What a long, strange trip it’s been. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2013, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-found-my-epitaph/659773/57 "2013-06-08T05:54:26Z")
If I was going to go silly instead of the serious one I already posted, I’d have a parrot engraved on the corner of the tombstone, and it would read: _I’m nailed to the perch!_ ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2013, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-found-my-epitaph/659773/58 "2013-06-08T06:14:17Z")
_For those who choose to stay Will live just one more day To do the things they should have done_ I just saw this awesome bas relief headstone from about 1889 showing the Stephens couple, and on the back, “_Here we lie by consent. After 57 years 2 months and 2 days sojourning through life awaiting natures immutable laws to return us back to the elements of the universe of which we were first composed_” ---
**Author:** ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2013, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-found-my-epitaph/659773/59 "2013-06-08T18:15:15Z")
Justice, not sympathy (And I actually did see this on a gravestone once.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-found-my-epitaph/659773.md?page=2)