Hilarious Tombstone inscriptions- 02
No family escapes the inevitability of death, the final curtain call that offers an eternal escape from life's daily miseries—be it financial stress, marital bickering, or failing health. Yet, even when a loved one is laid to rest in a quiet cemetery, the conversation doesn't entirely stop. That is where the epitaph comes in.
While most gravestones are marked with solemn prayers, tearful goodbyes, or holy scriptures, some people refuse to leave this world without having the last laugh. An epitaph is a final chance to show the world who you really were, and for the class clowns of history, a tombstone is just another stage for comedy. If you've ever doubted that humor can outlast the grave, these hilariously witty epitaphs will tickle you to the bone.
The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear:
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
And waste its sweetness on the desert air.”
― Thomas Gray, An Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard
“The paths of glory lead but to the grave.”
― Thomas Gray, An Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard
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"Here lies the bones of Richard Lawton
Whose death, alas, strangely
brought on
trying his corns one day to mow off,
His razor slipped and cut his tipoff,
His toe, or rather what it grew to,
An inflammation quickly flew to,
Which took, alas! to mortifying,
And was the cause of Richard's dying".
. Morton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire
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Elisha Philbrook and his wife
Sarah.
Beneath these stones do lie
Back to back, my wife and I!!
When the last trumpet the air
shall fill,
If she gets up, I'll lie still".
..... Sargentville, Maine
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Jared Bates
who died August the 6th 1800.
His widow, aged 24, lies at 7 Elm
Street, has every
qualification for a
good wife,and yearns
to be comforted".
..... Lincoln, Maine
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Lies all that's left of Sally Jones.
Her name was Briggs, it was not Jones,
But Jones was used to rhyme with stones".
..... Skaneateles, New York
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Lewder
Who burst while drinking a
Stieglitz powder
Called from this world to her
Heavenly rest!
She should have waited till it
effervesced".
..... Burlington, New Jersey
Ref: 'Last writes' by Gyles Brandreth:
Reader's Digest Diary 1995.
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