# What's your favorite epitaph? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 23, 2005, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-epitaph/295837 "2005-03-23T03:44:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2005, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-epitaph/295837/21 "2005-03-23T14:22:29Z")
Actually, my favorite epigraph isn’t in words, but in a picture. It’s that of Simon Stevin BRUGGHELINCK (“Stevinus”), who managed to get an illustration of one of his proofs on his tombstone: [http://home.planet.nl/~hopfam/Devreese.html](http://home.planet.nl/~hopfam/Devreese.html) (Actually, I’ve never seen a photo of the tombstone, so I hope this isn’t another Urban Legend) ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2005, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-epitaph/295837/22 "2005-03-24T01:35:45Z")
I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordealof meeting me is another matter. Winston Churchill (1874-1965) ---
**Author:** ![Kilvert\_s\_Pagan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@Kilvert\_s\_Pagan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilvert_s_Pagan)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2005, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-epitaph/295837/23 "2005-03-24T01:41:07Z")
> [@Already in Use](#): > > Or how about “Confusion”? Nuts - beat me to it. **Already in Use** , we’re showing our age. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2005, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-epitaph/295837/24 "2005-03-24T02:14:49Z")
Two favorites, at the moment— Tandem Felix (“Happy at Last”) From Gustavus III, King of Sweden, and [Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico](http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pis&GRid=766&PIgrid=766&PIcrid=8458&PIpi=80658&pt=Joshua+'Emperor+Norton+I'+Norton&) ---
**Author:** ![JoeSki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b487fb/32.png) [@JoeSki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoeSki)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-epitaph/295837/25 "2005-03-25T04:17:29Z")
There are some prime reply’s here. [QUOTE=Airman Doors, USAF] Here lies Lester Moore Four slugs from a .44 No Les no more I like this one. Dark and gritty. If I didn’t know better I’d swear it was straight out of a campy noir novel/flicker show. > [@DrMemory](#): > > Here lies the body of Mary Lee > Lived to the age of 103. > For 16 years she kept her virginity. > Not a bad record, for this Vicinity. Hah. Me and my mom both got a laugh out of this 🙂 . This thread has got me thinking: maybe I should check out some Edgar Allen Poe poems. ---
**Author:** ![JCorre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3da27b/32.png) [@JCorre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JCorre)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-epitaph/295837/26 "2005-03-25T05:23:15Z")
Not dead yet but this is what he claims he would like: “Don’t bother me. I’m skating.” -Bam Margera I thought it was kinda cool. ---
**Author:** ![poeticyde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/6bbea6/32.png) [@poeticyde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/poeticyde)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-epitaph/295837/27 "2005-03-25T14:34:46Z")
Here are a few of my favorites… John Adams lies here, of the parish of Southwell, A carrier who carried his can to his mouth well; He carried so much, and he carried so fast, He could carry no more - so was carried at last; For the liquor he drank, being too much for one, He could not carry off - so he’s now carri-on. ~written by Lord Byron Posterity will ne’er survey, A nobler grave than this: Here lie the bones of Castlereagh: Stop, traveller, and piss. ~written by Lord Byron And humbly I submit what I have written to place on my own stone… This stone of gravel, rock, and clay, Above a bed of grass doth lay, To mark the final resting place, Of long ago forgotten face. It bears no name, nor ever will, It sits here, silent, cold and still, Remembered here, this pile of bone, By place and memory alone. For if this man is long forgot, He’d much prefer this as his lot, And never bother living kin, With troubled memories of him. And if recalled, who needs a name? When one has love, or fear, or fame? So sign me not upon this stone, Be I remembered, or alone. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-epitaph/295837.md?page=1)