I watched a video on Youtube once of a panel in a conference, and as a final question to the panel, they were asked what they would want to have written on their headstones when they die. One of them jokingly said, "I told you I was sick", which garnered a laugh from the crowd. The other one had a more thoughtful remark on how he would want to be remembered by those he left behind. Either way, headstone inscriptions try to summarize in a short statement the kind of life that the deceased had lived. And it's not limited to just the run-of-the-mill epitaphs we often read, which are not bad in and of themselves, but sometimes even the inscriptions can be a way for the deceased to express their personalities one last time. Like the one of Merv Griffin above, which is said he often joked that he wanted to have inscribed on his tombstone.
Mental Floss has collected these 11 very creative inscriptions that will surely make you rethink about what you would want to have written on your headstone when the time comes.
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