# What might your epitaph be? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 23, 2023, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-might-your-epitaph-be/990587 "2023-09-23T09:08:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2023, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-might-your-epitaph-be/990587/21 "2023-09-23T19:29:52Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > Confusion [Ninja’d!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MZWWyYFPGA) ---
**Author:** ![dolphinboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dolphinboy/32/330_2.png) [@dolphinboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dolphinboy)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2023, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-might-your-epitaph-be/990587/22 "2023-09-23T20:30:46Z")
Mine will be… “Nobody ever knew me, although many thought they did.” How could you really know somebody without living in their skin? ---
**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:** [September 23, 2023, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-might-your-epitaph-be/990587/23 "2023-09-23T22:06:31Z")
_Won’t you turn your head once more_ _And make your peace with everyone_ _For Those who choose to stay will live just one more day_ _To do the things they should have done_ if I am lacking in levity at the time ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2023, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-might-your-epitaph-be/990587/24 "2023-09-23T22:09:25Z")
Probably have to go with the old Frankl quote. “What is to give light must endure burning.” ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2023, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-might-your-epitaph-be/990587/25 "2023-09-23T22:09:26Z")
> [@Tripler](#): > > Thank you . . . _?!?_ 😃 You’re welcome! (Can’t claim it as my own joke, alas; I heard it somewhere and it seemed like a good place to pass it on) ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2023, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-might-your-epitaph-be/990587/26 "2023-09-23T22:12:49Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > if I am lacking in levity at the time If we’re getting serious, I like the one that goes something like: _As you are now, so I once was;_ _As I am now, so you will be._ ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2023, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-might-your-epitaph-be/990587/27 "2023-09-23T22:18:51Z")
_To my friends, my thanks._ _To my family, my love._ _To my pallbearers…my apologies._ _I should have cut back on the pie._ ---
**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:** [September 23, 2023, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-might-your-epitaph-be/990587/28 "2023-09-23T22:41:21Z")
> [@solost](#): > > _As you are now, so I once was;_ > _As I am now, so you will be._ or the old classic _When I die,_ _my atoms will come undone._ _I’ll be space dust, once again._ _The wind will carry me,_ _and scatter me everywhere,_ _like dandelions in springtime_ _I’ll visit worlds and alien moons,_ _it will be so damn poetic –_ _until I land on your sandwich._ ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2023, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-might-your-epitaph-be/990587/29 "2023-09-23T22:41:39Z")
“A heart is judged not by how much _you_ love, but by how much you are loved by others.” ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2023, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-might-your-epitaph-be/990587/30 "2023-09-23T22:42:49Z")
> [@Tripler](#): > > “_Preheat oven to 2500°, then bake for 6 hours. Allow to cool to room temperature before scattering._” > > Tripler > I’m gonna be cremated. Notwithstanding @solost’s excellent joke I have an idea assuming you prefer scattering to interring someplace. Combine your line of work and love of sudden loud noises with the now-common silliness of a gender reveal party. So after the appropriate words are said and the crowd is gathered a charge will be set, your ashes placed atop, and the blast detonated to perform the scattering in fine EOD style. The crowd can attempt to divine your ghost’s gender and attitude to haunting from the color of the smoke and flying powder. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2023, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-might-your-epitaph-be/990587/31 "2023-09-23T22:52:12Z")
Is it a Ghoul or a Bogle? ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2023, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-might-your-epitaph-be/990587/32 "2023-09-24T00:18:35Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > I always thought I’d use John Lennon’s “Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans,” because that perfectly sums up my life. Nitpicky little known fact: The quote is more properly attributed to Allen Saunders in 1957. For my own epitaph I guess I’d pick “Don’t Laugh. You’re Next.” ---
**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2023, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-might-your-epitaph-be/990587/33 "2023-09-24T00:36:44Z")
> [@solost](#): > > If we’re getting serious, I like the one that goes something like: > > _As you are now, so I once was;_ > _As I am now, so you will be._ On the tombstone in my local cemetery growing up, the entire verse: Remember me as you pass by. As you are now so once was I; As I am now so you will be. Prepare for death and follow me. ---
**Author:** ![Tatterdemalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/43a26b/32.png) [@Tatterdemalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tatterdemalion)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2023, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-might-your-epitaph-be/990587/34 "2023-09-24T00:38:53Z")
He ate what what set before him. Credit to Robert Heinlein ---
**Author:** ![Lancia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lancia/32/17174_2.png) [@Lancia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lancia)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2023, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-might-your-epitaph-be/990587/35 "2023-09-24T00:53:52Z")
I just ordered an urn to hold the earthly remains of my mother who recently passed. The inscription says “There were extenuating circumstances, dammit!” I’m sure she would’ve gotten a kick out of it. I have no clue what I want for mine, if any. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2023, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-might-your-epitaph-be/990587/36 "2023-09-24T00:57:52Z")
Perhaps “Mom warned me there’d be days like this”? ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2023, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-might-your-epitaph-be/990587/37 "2023-09-24T01:14:42Z")
“Would it have killed you to have showered at least once?” ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2023, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-might-your-epitaph-be/990587/38 "2023-09-24T01:25:06Z")
_I wasn’t finished_ ---
**Author:** ![Al128](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/al128/32/16541_2.png) [@Al128](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Al128)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2023, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-might-your-epitaph-be/990587/39 "2023-09-24T01:41:17Z")
> [@solost](#): > > Veni, vidi, voro. > > (I came, I saw, I ate.) Veni, vidi, iterum abii (I came, I saw, I left again) * * * . or go full M-Py: . That’s just a flesh wound ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2023, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-might-your-epitaph-be/990587/40 "2023-09-24T02:12:44Z")
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