My epitaph

[anthrobabe]

I've always found epitaphs interesting...

it is the "final" word after all.

Often I've made them up for myself
they range from sublime- to stuid and silly


we should make up epitaphs




I'll start

"gotcha!"


one from the past:
From Boot Hill Cemetery in Tombstone AZ-- Mr. Moore worked for Wells Fargo at the Naco, AZ station

Here lies Lester Moore
Four slugs from a .44
No Les, No more

[Swatopluk]

A classic:

Here lies doctor XYZ.
His patients fill the next rows.

[The Meromorph]

I expected this.
But just not yet!

[Scriblerus the Philosophe]

"...Wait, what?"

[Griffin NoName]

Your call cannot be taken. Seriously.

[The Meromorph]

Rest in peace, good soldier,
your duty bravely done,
We do not count your life well lost,
but your honor as well won.

[Swatopluk]

(S)He went content when the time was due

Rest at last!

Land holder at last

You're next!

[goat starer]

not quite an epitath (although i would love it on my grave) from the guardian...

I have gone swimming in the sea
polish my shoes whilst i am gone
if i do not return tell everyone i was a good person

[beagle]

Out of it.

or

Not sleeping, merely dead.


Of the real ones my favourite is the one John Gay (writer of the Beggar's Opera) and buried in Westminster Abbey wrote for himself.

"Life is a jest, and all things show it;  I thought so once, and now I know it."

[ivor]

"This was not the life I ordered..."

[Bluenose]

Spike Milligan's epitaph:

I told you I was ill

[Sibling Lambicus the Toluous]

One from my high school chemistry teacher:

Poor little Johnny is dead and gone
You will see him no more
For what he thought was H₂O
Was H₂SO₄



And the inscription of the 8th-Century monk and scholar the Venerable Bede:

HAC SUNT IN FOSSA
BEDAE VENERABILIS OSSA

... or "the bones of the venerable Bede lie in this grave*"


Wikipedia claims that this normal translation of the inscription is wrong, and that it should actually be "the venerable bones of Bede" instead of "the bones of the venerable Bede".  Anyone here know enough Latin to confim/deny this?


*or literally "trench", according to Gould.

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

Swato is your guy on that one.
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They say its better to try and fail... and now I'm here.

[Swatopluk]

venerabilis is either 1st or 2nd case singular. If it were the venerable bones, it would have to be venerabilia (1st case plural neutral).
and fossa indeed means trench. Sepulchrum would not rhyme with ossa, though
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So, this is the promised land?

[Sibling Lambicus the Toluous]

Thanks, Swato.




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if you want to mess with people after you're dead:

I'm not really in here.
I'm standing right behind you.