{"id":6893,"date":"2025-11-16T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/?p=6893"},"modified":"2025-08-16T19:13:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T00:13:29","slug":"my-epitaph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/?p=6893","title":{"rendered":"My Epitaph"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Short and sweet thought for the week\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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An epitaph is a phrase written in memory of a person who has died, such as an inscription on a tombstone. Have you ever thought about what you would want written on your headstone? Although, I don\u2019t want to rush the process, we will all die at some point. How would we want to be remembered?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When my third child was born, I was exhausted. I remember telling my husband that if I died from fatigue to put \u201cRest in Peace\u201d on my headstone, because it would have been the first rest I\u2019d gotten in years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some think cemeteries are spooky. Not me! I love visiting them and reading headstones. For some reason, I don\u2019t think of their deaths, but the lives they must have lived. Family plots are almost a thing of the past, but our family has one in Southeast Missouri where many of my ancestors are buried. It\u2019s fascinating to go there with an older person who knows the history of the area. They will point out so many things that aren\u2019t on a headstone such as that one died in the pneumonia epidemic or this one died during a feud.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are some very funny epitaphs scattered throughout the world…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TV personality Merv Griffin\u2019s stone reads,  \u201cI will not be right back after this message.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Comedian Rodney Dangerfield has \u201cThere goes the neighborhood\u201d on his.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mel Blanc, who voiced many cartoon characters and would sign off Looney Tunes with the famous \u201cTh-th-th-that\u2019s all folks,\u201d actually has \u201cThat\u2019s All Folks\u201d on his tombstone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even those not so famous have left some lasting impressions…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

William H. Hahn Jr. of Princeton, New Jersey had the final word with \u201cI told you I was sick.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is one from Ruidoso, New Mexico. \u201cHere lies John Yeast. Pardon me for not rising.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another in Uniontown, Pennsylvania has an informative stone. \u201cHere lies the body of Jonathan Blake. Stepped on the gas instead of the brake.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of my favorites comes from father and son dentists. The father John Denby passed in 1927 with this phrase: \u201cI\u2019m filling my last cavity.\u201d When son Maurice passed in 1964, they added \u201cMe too\u201d to the stone. Don\u2019t you just love dentists with a sense of humor? Actually, I don\u2019t think many people love dentists but I guess it\u2019s better to have one with a sense of humor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m not sure what I would want as my epitaph. More than likely it will have my name, date born, and date died. Maybe I\u2019ll have them put something like: \u201cLoved by Jesus, Saved by Grace\u201d or \u201cWaiting for the Resurrection!\u201d Fortunately, I have some time to think about it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFor if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord.<\/em>
So then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord’s.” ~Romans 14:8 <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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