Re: Plan Your Epitaph Day (2 November)

 Ar an triú lá de mí na Samhain, scríobh Ross Clark:

 > Created by American "epitaph artist" Lance Hardie, 1995.
 > Oh well, anything to drum up a little more business.
 > Crystal quotes Benjamin Franklin:
 >
 > "The Body of B.Franklin, Printer; like the Cover of an old Book, Its
 > Contents torn out. And stript of its Lettering and Gilding, Lies here, Food
 > for Worms. But the Work shall not be wholly lost; For it will, as he
 > believ'd, appear once more, In a new & more perfect Edition, Corrected and
 > amended By the Author."

I’d like my epitaph to have my name and date of death.

Lee Marvin’s is great:

                                      LEE
                                    MARVIN
                                      PFC
                                US MARINE CORPS
                                 WORLD WAR II
                                  FEB 19 1924
                                  AUG 29 1987

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