Epitaphs- Synopsis of a Life?  

In the town where I grew up, there is an old cemetery. So old in fact, that erosion from the nearby lake actually washed caskets and remains into the water and along the shorelines.

There are also old stones. Plain white slabs, standing like thin white snowboards sticking out of the ground. Some of the words have faded into non legibility, but still some of the epitaphs can be read. Glimpses into the lives of those long ago.

One stone that stands out in my mind, was of a man who performed great feats of strength. I had forgotten the name, but my mother contacted her friends who take care of the cemetery and they said his name was Daniel Johnson.

His epitaph reads:

"beware ye weak,
here lies the strong
a victim of his strength
he lifted 1500 pounds
and here he lies at length."

I found the stone in a book long before i knew it was so close to home, and I wanted to find it online for my husband , who's friends have decided it's fun to leg press 1800 uphill.. their gonna get hurt, but I can find it nowhere online.

However, I have found an incredible number of famous last words and not so famous.

Do you know of any intersting epitaphs, be they funny, or famous, or just plain not nice to the deceased?

What would your epitaph be, if you were to write it today?