Epitaphs

Here are some interesting epitaphs I found on websites. 

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Remember friend as you walk by,
As you are now, so once was I;
As I am now, you soon will be.
Prepare for death and follow me.
(To follow you I'm not content
Until I know which way you went.)

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Here is where friend Starkwether lies.
Nobody laughs, nobody cries;
Where he goes, how he fares;
Nobody knows, nobody cares.

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Beza Wood
Here lies one Wood enclosed in wood;
One Wood within another.
The outer wood is very good;
We cannot praise the other.

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Sir John Strange
Here lies an Honest Lawyer,
And that is Strange.

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Here lies the body of our Anna,
Done to death by a banana.
It wasn't the fruit that laid her low
But the skin of the thing that made her go.

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Here lies the body of
Edward Hyde.
We laid him here
Because he died.

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Ate Healthy, Died Anyway.
What a waste of life.

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While living men my tomb do view,
Remember well, there's room for you.

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Robert Phillip, gravedigger:
Here I lie at the Chancel door;
Here lie I because I am poor;
The farther in the more you pay;
Here I lie as warm as they.

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Here lies
Ezekiel Aikle
Age 102
The Good
Die Young.

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This is a tomb with quite a view
Do come in, there's room for you
But hearken, dear mortal,
And mind me well
For I warn you now
The view is from HELL

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Here lie the pieces of Jumpin' George,
Still had bungie cord left at the bottom of the gorge.

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Time was I stood where thou dost now
And view'd the dead as thou dost me
Ere long you'll be as low as I
And others stand and gaze at thee

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Here lies the body of Mortimer Gissing.
His famous last words:
I hear something hissing!

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