Today, April 6 is "Plan Your Epitaph Day".  While it's not the most fun day to commemorate, it did get me thinking.  What would I want my epitaph to read?  If someone I didn't know were to visit my grave site, what thought would I want those etched words on my tombstone to convey about me?

At the End - RIP engraved on tomb
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I came up with "Lover of all of God's creatures, even the birds and squirrels".  I wonder what my friends and family would suggest for my epitaph?  Anyway, digging into the Internet, I found some famous epitaphs I'd like to share with you.
Actress Bette Davis   She did it the hard way
Susan B. Anthony   Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality
Al Capone   My Jesus Mercy
Boxer Jack Dempsey   A Gentle Man and a Gentleman
Cartoonist Mel Blanc    "That's All Folks"
W. C. Fields    Here lies W. C. Fields.  I would rather be living in Philadelphia.
"Wild Bill" Hickok    Wild Bill J.B. Hickok Killed by the assassin Jack M'Call In Deadwood, Black Hills Aug. 2d 1876
Mary Ann "Polly" Nichols   Victim of "Jack the Ripper"
"Clyde's" partner, Bonnie Parker  As the flowers are all made sweeter by the sunshine and the dew, So this old world is made brighter by the lives of folks like you
Edgar Allan Poe   Fly Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore"
William Shakespeare  Good friend for Jesus sake forbeare, To digg the dust encloased heare!  Blest be the man that spares thes stones, And curst be he that moves my bones

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