EpitaphsWord for the Wise November 02, 2006 Broadcast Topic: Epitaphs Not only is today All Souls?
Day; it is also Plan Your Epitaph Day.
Cemetery lovers (and yes, count us in that group) might want to get some ideas from the stone-inscribed tombstones themselves.
For those unable or unwilling to wander the graveyards, we抣l pass along a few of our favorite inscriptions.
We can抰 vouch for their veracity, but even if they抮e apocryphal, we appreciate their 杁are we say it?
梔own-to-earth humor.
(来源：老牌的英语学习网站 http://www.
2hzz.
com) Take this notation under an attorney抯 name: The defense rests.
Or this, for a late, lamented Scottish dentist: Stranger, tread/This ground with gravity/Dentist Brown/Is filling his last cavity.
The passing of a fisherman was noted with these lines: He抯 done a-catching cod/And gone to meet his God, while the final planting of a farmer was marked with this inscription: Here lies a farmer who/Has now properly assumed/All of his obligations.
Our penultimate lines are these forsaken words of a traveling salesman: My trip is ended/Send my samples home.
And finally, we抣l close with the words of a mellifluous crooner (surname: Sinatra): The Best is Yet to Come.