in order to erect a headstone. An architect, Robert Burn, was commissioned to produce one, and Burns composed the following epitaph. The two additional stanzas were written in his Second ...

This encounter with the devil long pre-dated his actual demise. William Fisher, however hard to like, at least had the satisfaction of outliving his epitaph, and its author, by thirteen years.

In Tombstone, Arizona, Lester Moore's epitaph reads: "Here lies Lester Moore, Four slugs from a 44, No Les, No More." This amusing rhyme sums up the life-and dramatic end-of a Wells Fargo station ...

The tomb was discovered at the foot of the ­local landmark Flaming Mountain. On the epitaph stone, Li was noted as someone born in the second year of the Shenlong era (706) of the Tang Dynasty ...

Your epitaph - the text written on a headstone - is the last thing you can say to the world. Sometimes it's a matter of getting your own account of your life out there. Richard Nixon, disgraced by ...