November 2nd is Write Your Epitaph day. What would you write? Do you need some inspiration?
Just because you are dead is no reason to lose your sense of humor. Adding some humor to the after life is a great way for your friends and family to remember you. Every time they go to the cemetery to visit your grave, they will have a bittersweet chuckle.
Zinger epitaphs are nothing new. They actually date back to ancient Rome and Greece. On an Epicurean’s tomb it read, “I was not, I was, I am not, I don’t care.” Alexander the Great’s narcissism is indisputable in his epitaph, “A tomb now suffices him for whom the world was not enough.” The cunning and fearless Ancient Roman General Sulla had an epitaph that epitomized his attitude toward warfare: “No friend ever served me, and no enemy ever wronged me, whom I have not repaid in full.”
As the years went by the statements were much more light-hearted. Even celebrities got in on the humor. Here are some giggle worth headstones from the departed rich and famous:
