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 |
Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Database
Written by Steven Shaklan with graphic design by Gene Simkin