While watching another Bette Davis documentary -- established, I'm a total fag for B.D. -- I'm struck by her epitaph, written by "All About Eve" scribe Joe Mankiewiecz: "She did it the hard way." I like.
Some other gravestones worthy of note:
Truth and History.
21 Men.
The Boy Bandit King --
He Died As He Lived.
--William H. Bonney "Billy the Kid"
My Jesus Mercy
--Alphonse Capone
1880 - 1946
--W.C. Fields
The Body of
B. Franklin, Printer
Like the Cover of an old Book
Its Contents turn out
And Stript of its Lettering & Guilding
Lies here. Food for Worms
For, it will as he believed
appear once more
In a new and more elegant Edition
corrected and improved
By the Author
--Benjamin Franklin
I had A Lover's Quarrel With The World
--Robert Lee Frost
Beloved Father
--Bela Lugosi
As the flowers are all made sweeter
by the sunshine and the dew,
so this old world is made brighter
by the lives
of folks like you.
--Bonnie Parker
In loving memory from the Family
--Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel
And alien tears will fill for him
Pity's long-broken urn,
For his mourners will be outcast men,
And outcasts always mourn.
--Oscar Wilde
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