Have you decided on your Epitaph?

What would be an appropriate writing on your tombstone?  Many have gone to great links to say something meaningful and leave it for all times.  I tend to like the humorous ones.  Like the guy whose name was “Odd.”  So one his stone he had nothing written.  That’s right not one word, simply a blank stone.  Why?  He said when people walk through the cemetery and see my stone, they will say “That’s Odd.”

Another favorite is of a young girl visiting a cemetery with her father.  They were reading the stones and she saw one that made her confused.  The words were ‘here lies an honest man and a politician,’ she said, “look daddy two men are buried in one grave.”

I am told that an Indiana cemetery has a tombstone (more than a hundred years old) which bears the following epitaph: Pause Stranger, when you pass me by, as you are now, so once was I.  As I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.  An unknown passerby read those words and underneath scratched this reply: To follow you I’m not content, until I know which way you went.

There are many more in my collection.  But a practical thought just occurred to me.  Say the important things you want to say, to the important people you want to here, while you are alive.  It may mean more that way and it may last longer that way too.