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Here's an intriguing list of epitaphs I came across while surfing: http://goodquotes.com/gravestones.htmAmong my favorites: Even amidst fierce flames the golden lotus can be planted.
Sylvia Plath Hughes
(Heptonstall Churchyard;Heponstall; Yorkshire, United Kingdom)
VOCATUS ATQUE
NON VOCATUS
DEUS ADERIT
Carl Jung
(Flutern Cemetery; Fluntern (Zurich), Switzerland)
{Invoked or not invoked, the god is present.}
The Stone the Builders Rejected
Jack London
(Jack London State Historic Park; Glen Ellen, California)
Marty Feldman
1934-1982
He made us laugh
He took my pain away
I love you
Lauretta(I loved Marty Feldman!...funny man!) Frank Zappa
(Unmarked)
located to the right of Lew Ayres(after all that, Frank?...not one word left for an epitaph!?...Incredible!  ) She did it the hard way.
Bette Davis
(Forest Lawn; Hollywood Hills, California)(and, of course, my all-time favorite)
I had A Lover's Quarrel With The World
Robert Frost
(Old Bennington Cemetery, Bennington, Vermont)
The Only WO'N!
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Bette Davis is dead? When did that happen? Nobody tells me anything.
Bingley
Bingley
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Emily Dickinson's
E.D. Called Back
1830-1886
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Pooh-Bah
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Guess Who...
Good friend for Jesus sake forbeare,
To digg the dust encloased heare:
Bles'e be ye man yt spares thes stones,
And curst be he yt moves my bones.
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Too easy.
Try this one:
Pardon my dust.
TEd
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Yarting back to the recent dearly departed past: "See ... I told you I was sick!"
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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Wasn't that supposed to be Dorothy Parker? But if so, it's not real. Alas, her dust reposed for about 30 years in a file drawer.
How about:
On the whole, I'd rather be in Philadelphia
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Epitaph the deceased composed for himself as a young man of about 22 (but did not ultimately use):
The body of Benjamin Franklin, Printer (like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out and stripped of its lettering and gilding), lies here, food for worms; but the work shall not be lost, for it will (as he believed) appear once more in a new and more elegant edition, revised and corrected by the Author.
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How about:
On the whole, I'd rather be in PhiladelphiaI say, I say...W.C. Fields!
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For many years when a reporter wrote a story the end was signified by writing -30-
There is gravestone of a former editor in a Calvary cemetery, (NYC) shown me by my Dad, and the epitaph is :
-30-
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