Question of the Week: If you were going to write your own epitaph, what would it be? [closed]

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If you were going to write your own epitaph, what would it be?

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"I hope all who knew me are saying: 'When he died, he sure owed me a lot of money!'"

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That is too funny!

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That's really funny!

On my tombstone will be: "Someday you'll understand."

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No good deed goes unpunished.

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Basically what is on my profile, with a few changes, as I'll be deceased.

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Finally a break from the telemarketers.

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Remember this as you pass by, for as you are, once was I.

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Jesus is the only way to go.See ya there

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On my Epitach, I would put one of my paintings that I painted called “Madam Butterfly.”

I figure, if I want to be memorialized, what better way, than to spread the joy of Art. 

If I can’t be famous in this lifetime, by spreading the love for Art, maybe those that follow me will catch the bug.

As a self taught artist, my goal is to share the saying… “ If I can do it, anyone can do it.”

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That’s a good one.

Answer 1

"Eighth-generation Kentuckian"

"I plan on haunting a lot of people."
"I'm not angry; I just want a hobby."

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I love it!

Answer 2

If epitaphs means what is only on a headstone. I will be buried in a National Cemetery, so only two words. I had “beloved mother” put on my mother’s. I have written my own and my husband’s epitaphs. They are on our WiKiTree profiles, and I have told several realives this. A few years ago I was at a large dinner, and I announced that I had written my obituary. I got several strange looks, so I asked where I was born, and everyone was silent. My brother-in-law passed away eight days ago, and I was given the job of writing his obituary, and I hope I did not leave out anything that he would have wanted me to add.

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My condolences on your family's loss.  I am sure you will "do him proud".

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Thank you Melanie. I think working on biographies for my family on WiKiTree really helped me. My sister-in-law said she got a lot of complements on his obituary.

Answer 3

It pains us to have to return work that is less than perfect!

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But life in general is less than perfect

Answer 4

My husband [Forbes-1710]  was diagnosed with terminal cancer at the relatively young age of 54.  He said that none of us knows in advance the date of our death, that he planned to fully enjoy whatever time he had left (he lived for another three years), and that he knew what he wanted as his epitaph:  "...and he lived happily ever after to the end of his days."  

He lived up to those words.

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Sorry to hear about the loss of your husband at such a young age from cancer. My mother and my father-in-law both died much to young from cancer. He had to have been a wonderfully positive person. Thank you for sharing his beautiful message.

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Though your story caused me tears, I think his philosophy and actions were beautiful. Thank you for this.

I'm sorry for the loss of your husband.

Answer 5

I’m not having a headstone. I’m going to be cremated and my daughter is going to take me on her travels scattering me in all the places I wanted to go.  But, if I were going to have one:

“She came, she saw

She hoarded yarn

Knit and crocheted

She drank and she knew things”

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Every crafter can appreciate that one! ;)

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Awesome! GOT fans unite!!

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I LOVE your obituary! I'd just had "and she loved a lot of cats" to that for myself!

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Ohhh, another yarn hoarder! I can relate -- can we take it with us?

Answer 6

I told you I was sick.

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Giggles! Thanks, Bart.

Answer 7

"Now meeting my brick wall ancestors"

"Wait, I still had yarn left!"

"Finally, more reading time"

"I'm still watching!" (running joke with my kids)

There's a cemetery near my old workplace with a headstone near the road that has the people's names on the away-from-road side and "Hello" on the road side. I like that.

Answer 8

"Mistakes Were Made"

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In Trinity Church cemetery in lower Manhattan, there is a real epitaph that reads 

"He was a good man, but he had his faults." 

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Ooooo that's a good one. Sounds like he has a 50/50 shot at Judgement Day.

Answer 9

Here lies one who lost against Entropy

Answer 10

My FindAGrave ID.

Answer 11

"She loved us in life. Now, she has spread her wings and is flying through Heaven joyfully visiting with her ancestors"

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That is just beautiful Virginia!

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Thank you, E Childs!!

Answer 12

At last we thought she would never go  xxx

Answer 13

"Bit off more than she could chew"

Answer 14

"She always did like spending quality time in a good cemetery"

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That is funny

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I don't know if everyone will understand, but we sure do!!

Answer 15

Que bonito es el mundo, lastima es que yo me muero. Can't remember where I saw this, but remembered through the years. Sorry I am writing from an English keyboard and can't get the accents in place,

Answer 16

She lived. She loved. She is loved.

Answer 17

Mark DeBrizzi died a broken old man who loved as best he could, wherever he could, whomever he could in the hopes that some day someone would love him too.

Answer 18

I believe I would put "She did it her way"

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Nearly the same Pam,

I have asked or suggested for " She did it her way always with respect".

Answer 19

SHE COULD HAVE BEEN A CONTENDER

Answer 20

I would borrow the words from a Bill Gaither song; 2nd verse fits my life;

"From the door of an orphanage to the house of the King - no longer an outcast, a new song I sing; From rags unto riches, from the weak to the strong, I'm not worthy to be here, But Praise God, I belong!"

At 2 1/2 yrs old, I was adopted out of an orphanage in Wisconsin; I'm 78 years old and am looking forward to the Palace of the KING!

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I like this