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I Told You I Was Sick

Celebrate Plan Your Own Epitaph Day with a virtual tour of some of history's most infamous engravings.

Life is a jest: and all things show it.
I thought so once; but now I know it.
-John Gay
Here lies the bodyOf Margaret Bent
She kicked up her heels
And away she went.
-Margaret Bent
Here lies the bodyof Jonathan Blake
Stepped on the gas pedal
Instead of the brake
-Jonathan Blake
Here lies the body of our Anna
Done to death by a banana
It wasn't the fruit that laid her low
But the skin of the thing that made her go.
-Anna Hopewell
Reader if cash thou art
In want of any
Dig 4 feet deep
And thou wilt find a Penny
-John Penny
Office up stairs.
-Dr. Fred Roberts
Born 1903--Died 1942
Looked up the elevator shaft to see if the car was on the way down.
It was.
-Harry Edsel Smith
Here lies Johnny Yeast
Pardon me for not rising
-Johnny Yeast
There is something to be said
For being dead.
-Eugene O'Neill
Here lies W.C. Fields.
On the whole, I'd rather be in Philadelphia.
-W.C. Fields
By and by
God caught his eye.
-Epitaph for a waiter
I told you I was sick.
-Anonymous
The Last Word || Beyond the Grave || The Epitaph-O-Matic
Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Database

Written by Steven Shaklan with graphic design by Gene Simkin

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