What's your epitaph?

Host_Ryan - One Show team

October 30, 2008 1:40 PM

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"The best is yet to come" is Frank Sinatra's.
Sammy Davis Jr.'s reads "The Entertainer. He did it all."
And can you guess who had the words written... "I told you so, you damned fools"?

For The One Show, Gyles Brandreth visited Brompton Cemetery. Opened in 1840, it holds many thousands of graves, including Emmeline Pankhurst's. The names on the gravestones in this cemetery, for example Peter Rabbett, Mr. McGregor and Mr. Nutkins, inspired Beatrix Potter when she was creating some of the characters in her books.

What will your epitaph be? What words will sum up your life? Humorous? Meaningful? We'd like to know the words you'd choose to have on your gravestone. Tell us below.

Please leave your first name and location on your blog comment, if you'd like your epitaph to be mentioned on The One Show programme.

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1. At 7:21pm on 30 Oct 2008, danstaf wrote:
my epitaph would be (in small typeface)

'if you can read this you're standing on my balls'

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2. At 7:22pm on 30 Oct 2008, wrinklysteve wrote:
My late father-in-law's favourite epitaph: Under this sod lies another

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3. At 7:22pm on 30 Oct 2008, richardmallett wrote:
Epitaph
Gone to get my money back!

Wish you were here.

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4. At 7:23pm on 30 Oct 2008, Deeadvani wrote:
Mine would say 'Here lies an anthiest, all dressed up and no where to go'

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5. At 7:23pm on 30 Oct 2008, dawnbaz wrote:
dawn and baz
immingham

my partners mom and dads grave have on his dads side just conked out and on his moms side so did i

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6. At 7:23pm on 30 Oct 2008, npem2512 wrote:
Epitaph: Tilt, game over!

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7. At 7:23pm on 30 Oct 2008, dolittlemore wrote:
My epitaph would be
"lifes too sh"

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8. At 7:23pm on 30 Oct 2008, wrinklysteve wrote:
The epitaph I would like: Trying, all his life.

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9. At 7:24pm on 30 Oct 2008, lopcar wrote:
"WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT ?" hehe

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10. At 7:24pm on 30 Oct 2008, moro23 wrote:
Mine would read
See you on the flip side

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11. At 7:24pm on 30 Oct 2008, lewobz wrote:
lewis calboutin - Newcastle upon tyne

ahh, mine would DEFNITELY have to be

"Sorry! an unexpected error has occurred. This error has been forwarded to MySpace’s technical group"

or like...

"Internet Explorer cannot open this webpage"

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12. At 7:24pm on 30 Oct 2008, Divernut wrote:
'At least I did one thing right, I married my wife Amanda'.

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13. At 7:24pm on 30 Oct 2008, merryMrDarby wrote:
My epitaph 'room for a small one' or 'Going up' love the show...that's not to go on my head stone. merryMrdarby

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14. At 7:24pm on 30 Oct 2008, Jesterjunkie wrote:
"I'M Not Dead Yet"

or mabe

"Your Advet Here call my wife"

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15. At 7:24pm on 30 Oct 2008, RichyRichyHello wrote:
"I put the 'fun' in 'funeral'

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16. At 7:24pm on 30 Oct 2008, elminus wrote:
Innit??

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17. At 7:25pm on 30 Oct 2008, fasttheresa wrote:
do not disturb!

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18. At 7:25pm on 30 Oct 2008, richardmallett wrote:
Sorry, forgot to leave my name last time

Richard Mallett, Bristol

Epitaph:
Gone to get my money back!

Wish you were here.

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19. At 7:25pm on 30 Oct 2008, lauraaka wrote:
Because my Mum Joyce is legendary for making amazing gravy, we have decided that her epitaph will be 'Here Lies Gravy Joyce'.

From Laura, Glastonbury

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20. At 7:26pm on 30 Oct 2008, wacky-jacky wrote:
My epitah is going to be

It's nice to be important but it's more important to be nice

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21. At 7:26pm on 30 Oct 2008, Merain2730 wrote:
I always tell my husband his should be
'Here lies Kerry Evans for whom Life was too much'Potch'!!!!

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22. At 7:26pm on 30 Oct 2008, jetjok wrote:
sandy from edinburgh
epitaph
"I came, I saw, I conked out"

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23. At 7:26pm on 30 Oct 2008, benoit2cool wrote:
my grandmas epitaph was

' i told you my legs were killing me'

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24. At 7:26pm on 30 Oct 2008, sandyprints wrote:

N.B.
I dont think we can write what we want... My mother was not able to have my fathers stone engraved as they wished or even the colour they wished for.. Each church has its own rules about each grave yard.. Your viewers might like to be informed that they might not have their wish granted after they die.
The church in this case is In Peterborough.

sandy

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25. At 7:26pm on 30 Oct 2008, 3neptuneclose wrote:
My husband is known as Dick the welder.

His headstone will read Dick the welder ran out of gas

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26. At 7:26pm on 30 Oct 2008, edacom wrote:
Subject: Old Tombstones
A truly Happy Person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour. And, one who can enjoy browsing old cemeteries... Some fascinating things on old tombstones!
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Harry Edsel Smith of Albany , New York:Born 1903--Died 1942.Looked up the elevator shaft to see if the car was on the way down. It was. ===============================In a Thurmont, Maryland , cemetery:Here lies an Atheist, all dressed up and no place to go.
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On the grave of Ezekial Aikle inEast Dalhousie Cemetery , Nova Scotia:Here lies Ezekial Aikle, Age 102. Only The Good Die Young.
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In a London , England cemetery:Here lies Ann Mann, Who lived an old maid but died an old Mann.
Dec. 8, 1767
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In a Ribbesford, England , cemetery:Anna WallaceThe children of Israel wanted bread, And the Lord sent them manna.
Clark Wallace wanted a wife, And the Devil sent him Anna.
===============================In a Ruidoso, New Mexico , cemetery:Here lies Johnny Yeast... Pardon me for not rising.
===============================In a Uniontown, Pennsylvania , cemetery:Here lies the body of Jonathan Blake.
Stepped on the gas instead of the brake.
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In a Silver City , Nevada , cemetery:Here lays The Kid.
We planted him raw.
He was quick on the trigger
But slow on the draw.
===============================A lawyer's epitaph in England:Sir John Strange.Here lies an honest lawyer, and that is Strange.
===============================John Penny's epitaph in the Wimborne,England , cemetery:Reader, if cash thou art in want of any,
Dig 6 feet deep and thou wilt find a Penny.
===============================In a cemetery in Hartscombe , England:On the 22nd of June, Jonathan Fiddle went out of tune.
===============================Anna Hopewell's grave in Enosburg Falls, Vermont:Here lies the body of our Anna,
Done to death by a banana.
It wasn't the fruit that laid her low,
But the skin of the thing that made her go.
===============================On a grave from the 1880s in Nantucket , Massachusetts:Under the sod and under the trees,
Lies the body of Jonathan Pease.
He is not here, there's only the pod.
Pease shelled out and went to God.
===============================In a cemetery in England:Remember man, as you walk by,
As you are now, so once was I
As I am now, so shall you be.
Remember this and follow me. To which someone replied by writing on the tombstone: To follow you I'll not consent.
Until I know which way you went.

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27. At 7:27pm on 30 Oct 2008, andy25100 wrote:
mine would be

"no re-spawn for me"

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28. At 7:28pm on 30 Oct 2008, tobesf1 wrote:
FOR YOUR EYES ONLY

The names James
James Tobes BOND, mines a Guinness
Leave it on the slab

James, Cambridge UK

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29. At 7:28pm on 30 Oct 2008, shep600 wrote:
I'll Be Back.

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30. At 7:29pm on 30 Oct 2008, niceKatyone wrote:
Here are two I particularly like:-

Here lies the body of big John
He was right - we was wrong
but we strung him up
an' now e's gone

or even

let your wind go free
where ere you be
for twas the wind
that killeth me

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31. At 7:29pm on 30 Oct 2008, rogerperkis wrote:
what a wonderful life I had don't waste yours

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32. At 7:29pm on 30 Oct 2008, niceGhostie wrote:
"Here lies Dave, and he's bloody annoyed!"

Dave, York.

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33. At 7:30pm on 30 Oct 2008, FionaHope wrote:
My Father is ALWAYS right!
We have decided his epitaph would read :
Here lies Norman,
Gone to sort God out

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34. At 7:30pm on 30 Oct 2008, superCarolM wrote:
(hopefully) She still had all her own teeth

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35. At 7:30pm on 30 Oct 2008, shep600 wrote:
im watcing you

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36. At 7:30pm on 30 Oct 2008, supaemileheskey wrote:
epithaph would be;

"Here lies Emile Heskey, sorely missed.......again"

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37. At 7:30pm on 30 Oct 2008, 3timesjilly wrote:
travelled by many;remembered by few

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38. At 7:30pm on 30 Oct 2008, merrycheryjohn wrote:
Mac Hall

The epitaph I would like:

Under this sod lays a bigger one

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39. At 7:30pm on 30 Oct 2008, smartChris57 wrote:
My dad's would be

"Sorry i'm late"

He's never been on time to anything in his life! He even sets out to be late on porpoise!

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40. At 7:30pm on 30 Oct 2008, cattiH wrote:
I was the first woman on channel four

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41. At 7:31pm on 30 Oct 2008, shakybabspage wrote:
My husbands epitaph will be
He tutted once too often

Barbara Page
Warlingham

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42. At 7:31pm on 30 Oct 2008, Petabarbara wrote:
My husband wants 'Best Before ............'

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43. At 7:31pm on 30 Oct 2008, 1kevfp wrote:
" I don't 'arf miss me food !

KP. Birkenhead

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44. At 7:32pm on 30 Oct 2008, rogerperkis wrote:
Roger Perkis
Grantham

What a wonderful life I had don't waste yours

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45. At 7:32pm on 30 Oct 2008, andymcgregor22 wrote:
Just a though as you pass bye, as you are now so once was I,
as I am now so you will be,
prepare my friend to follow me!

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46. At 7:32pm on 30 Oct 2008, oldbuzzy wrote:
Underneath this sod lies another

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47. At 7:32pm on 30 Oct 2008, vinniebhoy wrote:
NO FLOWERS PLEASE CANT SMELL " EM"

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48. At 7:33pm on 30 Oct 2008, blackpool_fc_1953 wrote:
i want

"well, this way i dont have to pay for a divorce!"

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49. At 7:33pm on 30 Oct 2008, incredibleblueboy wrote:
my epitaph would be 'under this sod lies another'. paul T: torquay.

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50. At 7:35pm on 30 Oct 2008, lightword wrote:
Epitaph
Could you give me a hand out please?

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51. At 7:38pm on 30 Oct 2008, EllisGurl wrote:
I'd like:

"Here lies Lottie Ellis... AND SHE'S BLOODY ANNOYED!"

Lol.
Love the show x

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52. At 7:38pm on 30 Oct 2008, MarkPilcher wrote:
Victor Meldrew/Richard Wilson

'Both feet in the grave'

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53. At 7:38pm on 30 Oct 2008, grandBEISHON wrote:
Epitaph for Alan: HE DIED WAITING FOR WINDOWS

Epitaph for the late departed Alan: SORRY I'M LATE

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54. At 7:39pm on 30 Oct 2008, OliBruceTheMOOSE wrote:
Mine woul have to say.

'well i tried'

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55. At 7:40pm on 30 Oct 2008, vinniebhoy wrote:
ANYONE GOT A POUND FOR THE METER IT INALF DARK IN" ERE"

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56. At 7:40pm on 30 Oct 2008, WelshBelly wrote:
in a cemetery in South Wales

a man died aged 7777

the stone mason couldn't do the 8 for twenty eight so did 4 * 7 instead

I'd like mine to be.

A 'lie in' at last

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57. At 7:41pm on 30 Oct 2008, besillynot wrote:
Died of Boredom

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58. At 7:41pm on 30 Oct 2008, bexneil wrote:
my grandad says he'll put on my nans "walk quietly, cos when she wakes she talks"!

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59. At 7:43pm on 30 Oct 2008, MarkPilcher wrote:
Victor Meldrew/Richard Wilson

'Both feet in the grave'

Mark Pilcher, Tunbridge Wells, Kent

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60. At 7:45pm on 30 Oct 2008, christinenuffie wrote:
i have told my husband that on his grave stone i will write I TOLD YOU YOU DID TOO MUCH

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61. At 7:47pm on 30 Oct 2008, masterGingerNinger wrote:
hello im a new user and really like sum of the epitaph's i've read and giggled at and will keep watching the 1 show

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62. At 7:48pm on 30 Oct 2008, Naciowy wrote:
Justyna, Dublin:

"Sleep? I don't need no stinkey sleep!"

(grammar and spelling intended)

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63. At 7:50pm on 30 Oct 2008, blogwitch wrote:
'Guess who's dead?' will be my husband's epitaph- they are the magic words this sensitive soul always uses to tell me someone I know has died!!
Wendy from Ringwood

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64. At 7:50pm on 30 Oct 2008, ashleynewport wrote:
My epitaph would be a choice of 2:

"Dance, I know you have thought about it"

or

"Leave your flowers, now bugger off"

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65. At 7:51pm on 30 Oct 2008, masterGingerNinger wrote:

my epitaph would read:

" BACK IN 5 MINUITES "

or

" I'LL BE BACK IN A JIFFY "

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66. At 7:51pm on 30 Oct 2008, ashleynewport wrote:
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67. At 7:52pm on 30 Oct 2008, masterGingerNinger wrote:
MINE WOULD ALSO BE

" HELLO WELCOME NOW PEE OFF "

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68. At 7:55pm on 30 Oct 2008, 1kevfp wrote:
There is an Epitaph to the hardest man in a Liverpool graveyard it reads,

WORRA YOU LOOKIN AT !

Kev P , Birkenhead

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69. At 7:58pm on 30 Oct 2008, ashleynewport wrote:
The children of Israel wanted bread
And the Lord sent them manna,
Old clerk Wallace wanted a wife,
And the Devil sent him Anna.

In a Ribbesford, cemetery

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70. At 7:59pm on 30 Oct 2008, Hywelblogger wrote:
The epitaph of an Indian snitch "the Singh who sang"

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71. At 8:00pm on 30 Oct 2008, pikie99 wrote:
Mine will say "I wish I hadn't bothered"

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72. At 8:02pm on 30 Oct 2008, pikie99 wrote:
Forgot to leave my name:

Nicki, Reigate : "I wish I hadn't bothered"

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73. At 8:05pm on 30 Oct 2008, lawriejogger wrote:
I've always thought that David Vine's (when he introduced Ski Sunday) should be 'He's gone' as he always said this when a skier took a tumble.
Lawrie W of Grange

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74. At 8:12pm on 30 Oct 2008, oldbuzzy wrote:

This resting place is not for me
I wanted burial at sea.
Revenge those who really crave
a chance to dance upon my grave

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75. At 8:29pm on 30 Oct 2008, littleparsley10 wrote:
Thought you ONE show Guys may like this. My husband of nearly 35 years has claimed this is the perfect epitaph!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He likes a drop of Scotch now and again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It will be 'For Whom The Bells Tolled'!!!!!!!!!!!! Well I''ll have to smile!

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76. At 8:32pm on 30 Oct 2008, charmingashton wrote:
My epitaph :
"Thankgoodness no more bloody paper work!" - Chris (teacher)

Cambridgeshire PE29 2XD
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77. At 8:34pm on 30 Oct 2008, Pa77ie wrote:
Here is my epitaph ....

Wish I wasn't here, but I'll see you again!

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78. At 8:56pm on 30 Oct 2008, TAYLOA1 wrote:
My epitaph would be
'Gone shopping forever!'

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79. At 9:17pm on 30 Oct 2008, EmiliaGoody wrote:
"get my pen back off the nurse, I leant it to her. The one with the black hair and dodgy shoes"

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80. At 9:24pm on 30 Oct 2008, Judderd wrote:
Those who can view large.
This headstone in Wolstanton Parish Church.North Staffordshire England reads.
Here lieth the body of
Sarah Smith Daughter of Samuel and Martha Smith of Bradwall Park who departed this life Nov 29th 1763 and in the 21st Year of Her Age.
It was C_____S B_____W That Brought me to my End.
Dear Parents mourn not for me.
For God Will ftand my friend.
With Half a Pint of Poyfon.
He Came to Vifit me.
Write this on my Grave.That all that read may fee.

Note some is in old English so f is the same as s.
The culprit thought to be one Charles Barlow although not proven.

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81. At 9:28pm on 30 Oct 2008, fastwelshdragon wrote:
My nickname

"Cowpat"

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82. At 9:59pm on 30 Oct 2008, riverdipper wrote:
Remember me is all I ask.
But if remembrance be a task -
Forget me.

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83. At 10:55pm on 30 Oct 2008, kitchen11 wrote:
My epitaph would be "finally, i get a lie in"

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84. At 11:49pm on 30 Oct 2008, colesells wrote:
My epitaph would be

'COL-LAPSED'

Colin Colesell.
Portsmouth

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85. At 07:59am on 31 Oct 2008, Big-Vic wrote:
My epitaph would be

Go away, I'm staying here.

Vic in Holland

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86. At 08:24am on 31 Oct 2008, siltshifter wrote:
My favourite epitaph ever reads:

"Emily Stamp, Postmistress.
Spinster of this Parish
Returned Unopened"

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87. At 08:32am on 31 Oct 2008, siltshifter wrote:
Re: 86 above: it's from David in Gloucester

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88. At 08:33am on 31 Oct 2008, z wrote:
"NOW LOOK WHAT'S HAPPENED"

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89. At 10:04am on 31 Oct 2008, Realserver wrote:
From Ray in Flackwell Heath;

" is that all there is "

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90. At 10:12am on 31 Oct 2008, louise59 wrote:
My father in law was a farmer and very careful with his money.
His epitaph written for him was
Here lies the body of poor old Auston he'll never know what this stone has cost him.
My husband thinks it is great for his father.
louise harris

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91. At 10:38am on 31 Oct 2008, Gentle1to1 wrote:
My epitaph would be,

"If thats Life I have had it"

Andy Willis Birmingham

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92. At 10:47am on 31 Oct 2008, Cryptic33 wrote:
Epitaph:

"He wasn't always right, just seldom wrong"

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93. At 10:59am on 31 Oct 2008, DaddyNuge wrote:
My dad doesn't want a headstone. Instead he wants a memorial bench in the park. The bench will have a row of brass spikes down the seat. The epitaph will read 'In memory of Jon Hall - In death, as in life, a pain in the arse'

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94. At 11:06am on 31 Oct 2008, junejohnston wrote:
I don't know about my epitaph but the best one I've ever seen, in a graveyard in New England, reads:

Here lies the remains of Samuel Peas
Under the flowers and under the trees.
Peas is not here, only his pod
Sam has shelled out and gone home to God.

:)

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95. At 11:06am on 31 Oct 2008, Kingfrugal wrote:
Adrian did say, I quote:

Send us your "unusual EPITAPHS"

So here is mine:

"HAPPIEST" ! (Anagram of EPITAPH)

As Gyles and Richard Stilgoe will tell you there are plenty of similarly "too good to be true" anagrams where that one came from

"Happiest" is not a bad epitaph to have on your grave anyway, particularly if you had a sad life and believe you have gone to heavenly bliss and happiness in the after life

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96. At 11:11am on 31 Oct 2008, Kingfrugal wrote:
Adrian did say, I quote:

Send us your "unusual EPITAPHS"

So here is mine:

"HAPPIEST" ! (Anagram of EPITAPH)

As Gyles and Richard Stilgoe will tell you there are plenty of similarly "too good to be true" anagrams where that one came from

"Happiest" is not a bad epitaph to have on your grave anyway, particularly if you had a sad life and believe you have gone to heavenly bliss and happiness in the after life

Peter Lewis - Sheffield

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97. At 11:19am on 31 Oct 2008, sweetzebedee wrote:
My husband's family have a saying which would be great for an epitaph

"one sometimes often cannot tell what's least expected most"

It would give people something to think about in the future.

Sweet Zebedee.
Plymouth

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98. At 11:19am on 31 Oct 2008, CairnTerrier wrote:
One for Hardeep - possibly best in a brummie whine

Hardeep ?

Six feet deep. That's Hardeep.

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99. At 11:37am on 31 Oct 2008, largeLewlewis wrote:
I am Lew Lewis the comedian, and I have instructed my Executors that my gravestone should read the following:

"Lew Lewis Comedian has died for the very last time"

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100. At 11:41am on 31 Oct 2008, pancho56 wrote:
THis is an existing, very apt, epitaph from the grave of a First World War soldier..

"Here, dead we lie, because we did not wish to live and shame the land from which we've sprung.
Life, to be sure, is nothing much to loose. But young men think it is and we were young".

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101. At 12:10pm on 31 Oct 2008, Mouthmash wrote:
Up yours God, down yours world!

John, Harrow

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102. At 12:11pm on 31 Oct 2008, Mouthmash wrote:
One for Hardeep:

My kilt will now wilt.

John, Harrow

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103. At 12:40pm on 31 Oct 2008, Versesmith wrote:
Final Hole (R.I.P.)

Here's golfer Bill once live now dead,
A golf club buried in his head.
Said killer wife, when she was found,
"He didn't ought to have played around".

Tom McHarg (Norfolk)

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104. At 12:47pm on 31 Oct 2008, moverjameshilton wrote:
did anyone else see the white crucifix in the clouds on the last clip of pendle witches spooky eh! i recorded the programme its realy there james hilton knutsford

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105. At 1:21pm on 31 Oct 2008, weaverscottage wrote:
My epitaph would read

'Here lies a woman who was always tired,
She lived in a world where too much was required!'

My teenage daughter said hers would read

Buried Alive!

Final comment. There is a pets tomb, I believe it is a monkey, in Henley whose little tomb reads

'There is not enough darkness in this whole world, to extinguish the light of one small candle.'

Much loved methinks.

Linda B,
Witney,
OXON.

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106. At 1:52pm on 31 Oct 2008, cherryfan wrote:
For my husband who works in banking - Account Closed!

Carole - Christchurch Dorset

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107. At 1:53pm on 31 Oct 2008, lizzywiz wrote:
My epitaph:

HERE LIES A HAPPY CORPSE FULL OF SMILES...
A LESSON THEREIN FOR THAT SOUR PUSS CHILES

alternatively:

SHE TALKED TOO MUCH - BUT NOT ANYMORE.

from Lizzy B
Malmesbury, Wilts.

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108. At 2:18pm on 31 Oct 2008, Kingfrugal wrote:
Adrian did say, I quote:

Send us your "unusual EPITAPHS"

So here is mine:

"HAPPIEST" ! (Anagram of EPITAPHS)

As Gyles and Richard Stilgoe will tell you there are plenty of similarly "too good to be true" anagrams where that one came from

"Happiest" is one of the best epitaphs to have on your grave anyway, particularly if you had the saddest of lives and believe you have gone to the heavenliest of blisses and superlative happiness in the after life

Peter Lewis - Sheffield

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109. At 4:10pm on 31 Oct 2008, korkey wrote:
EPITAPH FOR ADRIAN AND CHRISTINE

ADRIAN CHILES

THE ONE
IM GONE
TA-RA WEST BROM

CHRISTNE BLEAKLEY

STRICTLY NO DANCING
ON MY GRAVE

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110. At 4:41pm on 31 Oct 2008, reginaldreggae wrote:
I came, I saw, I conked out!
from Steve Stone

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111. At 6:24pm on 31 Oct 2008, greeniveson wrote:
My Epitaph

Bloody Shitting Kids

N Iveson

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112. At 7:32pm on 31 Oct 2008, Diggertherigger wrote:
As a gravedigger for the last 27 years i have read a lot of headstones, 1 that springs to mind is the 1 that says,

' Peace at last'.

but for whom

from Simon Warner

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113. At 7:43pm on 31 Oct 2008, Hypocon wrote:
I am not dead, I did not die
Here lies xyz, xyz

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114. At 8:07pm on 31 Oct 2008, JACKIERUSSELLS wrote:
on mine i would just have::: Theres only one garrentee in life and that one day you'll end up here: THATS LIFE! GM

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115. At 8:52pm on 31 Oct 2008, dancingleprichaun23 wrote:
Mine would probably be "past the sell by date" or "danced through life"

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116. At 09:32am on 01 Nov 2008, emroka wrote:
Oh stranger pause as you go by,
as you are now so was I,
As I am so will you be,
So be prepared to follow me.

(sometime later, someone had added)

To follow you I'd be quite content, but
hanged if I know which way you went!

Brenda in Corfe Mullen Dorset

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117. At 10:10am on 01 Nov 2008, Versesmith wrote:
Love after death

I did not love thee, husband Mike,
In sickness or in health.
I think of you more fondly now,
I'm spending all your wealth.

Tom McHarg (Norfolk)

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118. At 1:28pm on 02 Nov 2008, fillip wrote:
I have always said my epitaph would read
" When you've got a minute"

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119. At 2:42pm on 02 Nov 2008, ilbamoobac wrote:
My epitaph would read:-

I told you the situation was grave

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120. At 06:58am on 03 Nov 2008, a_person2 wrote:
My epitaph:

“Well – that’s the rehearsal over with then”

Bernard (Middlesbrough)

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121. At 7:36pm on 10 Nov 2008, lordtup wrote:
My epitath woulfd read

Was that it ?

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122. At 8:54pm on 10 Nov 2008, kozerog wrote:
My epitaph would be: -

????!

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123. At 8:56pm on 10 Nov 2008, kozerog wrote:
122 would be transliterated, as there are no Kyrillics hereon: -

Poka!

Russian for 'bye!

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124. At 10:16pm on 10 Nov 2008, surreydodger wrote:
I laughed and laughed and laughed til I cried,
Then I laughed and laughed until I died.

You only live once :)

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125. At 9:37pm on 11 Nov 2008, valiantkate wrote:
My family would leave the lid off my coffin so I could get up and make the buffet!!!!!!

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126. At 6:31pm on 13 Nov 2008, niceboyblueeyes wrote:
mine

when im in a sober mood i worry work and think
when im in a drunken mood i gambling play and drink
and when my moods are over and my time has come to pass
i hope im buried upside down so the world can kiss my ar*e

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127. At 9:01pm on 17 Nov 2008, Sheik Zbeer wrote:
Mine:

Perhaps: "This way up"

Probably: "What the F*** was that all about?"

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128. At 3:43pm on 19 Nov 2008, Acalmguy wrote:
Mine will read.......

Th..th...th..that's all folks!

Will. Garstang Nr. Preston

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129. At 8:23pm on 20 Nov 2008, MikeBR50 wrote:
on a bikers grave:

'He passed the fat old policeman,
he passed th cart of hay,
he tryed to pass the swerving bus,
and then he passed away'

Mike East Lothian

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130. At 09:20am on 21 Nov 2008, skiandu wrote:
Being a "world of warcraft" (yeah I know I am sad) player it just has to be

"you can never find a res when you really need one"
Game over

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131. At 11:42pm on 21 Nov 2008, richiii wrote:
Keep smiling

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132. At 12:50pm on 26 Nov 2008, cornishtess wrote:
Don't mourn for me now
Don't mourn for me never
For I'm going to do nothing
Forever and ever.

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