If you were to write an epitaph?

Question

for your self in a poem. what would be the things you'd tell those who read it

Answer 1

simply put

see you on the other side

and no necrophilia!

bad bad neighbor

nice name for this question huh?

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Answer 2

"He came into this world crying while all who saw him were laughing. When he left this world it was he who was laughing and all who knew him were crying."

Answer 3

"Here Lies Willie D, Kilt by a 44, Nothing les, nothing mor"

Answer 4

here lies one confused woman  it would not surpise me if i was in the wrong grave  but leave flowers anyways.

Answer 5

I see your ikonic identity is named "Crossing the Rubicon," and remember that, when Julius Caesar crossed that border between Cisalpine Gaul and the rest of Italy, he said,"Jacta alea est."

A Hellenistic counterpart of Caesar's action is "Crossing the Halys," which at one time  separated Persia from Lydia. If I'm not wrong, Croesus crossed the Halys, to do battle with the Shah of that country, and was defeated.

Croesus had been told by Solon, "Count no man happy, until he is dead." (That's just a corollary of Murphy's Law.)

Now, in regard to your question:

I might like to have, as an epitaph, a poem that Robert Louis Stevenson composed, and which is inscribed on his own tombstone, titled, "Requiem."

UNDER the wide and starry sky,

Dig the grave and let me lie.

Glad did I live and gladly die,

And I laid me down with a will.

This be the verse you grave for me:

Here he lies where he longed to be;

Home is the sailor, home from the sea,

And the hunter home from the hill

Answer 6

"Don't waste your time worrying about me, I'm dead.  Forget about me, move on with your life, enjoy yourself."

Answer 7

Here lies.......beloved father, step father, grandfather, friend

His life was full of adventure for the common man

"My only regret is that I wasn't there for my children"

US Navy Retired Nov 1971 - Jan 1993

Serve with Honor, Live with Dignity, Love with no Regret