"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." --Voltaire

Friday, November 2, 2007

Plan Your Epitaph Day


Today is Plan Your Epitaph Day.
This day is dedicated to the proposition that a forgettable gravestone is a fate worse than death.

Some things just shouldn't be left to chance.

Click on the picture to read more about it.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

John Wilmot, 2nd Lord Rochester,wrote a mock epitaph of King Charles II:

"Here lies a great and mighty king
Whose promise none relied on;
He never said a foolish thing’
Nor ever did a wise one."

To which the King replied:

“That is true, for my words are my own, but my actions are those of my ministers.”

Ignatius J. Reilly

Anonymous said...

HIC JACET ARTHURUS REX QUONDAM REXQUE FUTURUS

Anonymous said...

Selon Suétone (Vie des douze Césars), Qualis artifex pereo! est la dernière parole de l'empereur Néron, qui l'aurait prononcée au moment de se poignarder. Plus attaché à sa valeur d'artiste qu'à la dignité impériale, il se suicide en disant: Quel artiste périt avec moi! (La traduction littérale est: Quel artiste je meurs!)

Anonymous said...

ET IN ARCADIA EGO

Anonymous said...

Allied Excavating, Inc. v. Dean R. Johnson Construction, Inc., et al., Cause No. 27 CV 07 14729 in the District Court for the Fourth Judicial District County of Hennepin County, Minnesota.

Anonymous said...

"Hier stehe ich; ich kann nicht anders. Gott helfe mir! Amen."

-- attr. Dr. Martin Luther