gravestone quotes
"the epitaphs and tombstones of famous people:
1) The mortal remains of Ethan Allen,
fighter, writer, statesman, and philosopher,
lie in this cemetery beneath the marble statue.
His spirit is in Vermont now.
Ethan Allen
(Greenmount Cemetery; Burlington, Vermont)
2) Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality
Susan Brownell Anthony
(Mount Hope Cemetery; Rochester, New York)
3 Wife-Mother-Actress-Author
The world will remember.
Eve Arden
(Westwood Memorial Park; Westwood, California)
4) He thinketh no evil
Henry Ward Beecher
(Green-Wood Cemetery; Brooklyn, New York)
5) "That's All Folks!"
The Man of a Thousand Voices
Mel Blanc
(Hollywood Memorial Park; Hollywood, California)
6) Truth and History.
21 Men.
The Boy Bandit King --
He Died As He Lived.
William H. Bonney "Billy the Kid"
(Fort Sumner Cemetery; Fort Sumner New Mexico)
7) Sleep with a smile.
Sammy Cahn
(Westwood Memorial Park; Westwood, California)
8) My Jesus Mercy
Alphonse Capone
(Mt. Carmel Cemetery; Chicago, Illinois)
9) A star on earth - a star in heaven
Karen Carpenter
(Forest Lawn; Cypress, California)
10) Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas,
Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please.
Joseph Conrad
(St. Thomas Church; Canterbury, England)
11) His star will forever shine.
Bert Convy
(Forest Lawn; Hollywood Hills, California)
12) She did it the hard way.
Bette Davis
(Forest Lawn; Hollywood Hills, California)
13) At Rest
An American Soldier
And Defender of the Constitution
Jefferson Davis
(Hollywood Cemetery; Richmond, Virginia)
14) "The Entertainer"
He did it all
Sammy Davis, Jr.
(Forest Lawn; Glendale, California)" (to be continued)
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Question: If you were to sit down now to ponder your own eventual physical death
and planned to have a funeral service and burial in a prominent cemetery,
what epitaph would be the precise wording you would choose?
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Originally posted by Grampy BobbyYou must love this OP as you've posted it in "spirituality" also.
[b]gravestone quotes
"the epitaphs and tombstones of famous people:
1) The mortal remains of Ethan Allen,
fighter, writer, statesman, and philosopher,
lie in this cemetery beneath the marble statue.
His spirit is in Vermont now.
Ethan Allen
(Greenmount Cemetery; Burlington, Vermont)
2) Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality
Susan Br ...[text shortened]... al in a prominent cemetery,
what epitaph would be the precise wording you would choose?[/b]
Originally posted by Grampy BobbyYou go first, GB!
[b]gravestone quotes
Question: If you were to sit down now to ponder your own eventual physical death
and planned to have a funeral service and burial in a prominent cemetery,
what epitaph would be the precise wording you would choose?[/b]
Umm, I don't mean literally. 🙂