EPITAPH REFERENCES

Plan Your Epitaph References

If you want to explore the fields of death, epitaphs, and cemeteries,
this is as good a list as any to start with:

Panati's Extraordinary Endings of Practically Everything and Everybody, by Charles Panati. Perennial Library, Harper & Row, (c) 1989.
Cemeteries and Gravemarkers, Voices of American Culture, ed. by Richard E. Meyer, Utah State University Press, (c) 1992.
The Cemetery Book, by Tom Weil. Hippocrene Books, (c) 1994.
Epitaphs: A Dictionary of Grave Epigrams and Memorial Eloquence, by Nigel Reese. Carol & Graf Publishers, (c) 1993.
Famous Last Words and Tombstone Humor, by Gyles Brandreth. Sterling Publishing Co., (c) 1989.
Epitaphs to Remember, by Janet Greene. Alan C. Hood & Co., Inc., publ.1993.
Haunted Places: The National Directory, by Dennis William Hauck. Penguin Books USA, 1996.
The Definitive Guide to Underground Humor, by Edward Bergin. Offbeat Publishing.1995.
Epitaph is not the End, by E. Melissa Sargent. Vantage Press.
(I am searching for this book. If you have a copy you are willing to part with, please contact me.)

If you know of any other good sources, please pass them on.
I am always on the lookout for especially good work.

And note this:

PLAN YOUR EPITAPH DAY happens on November 2nd.
Join millions of others in celebration and tell your friends
and your favorite media people about it.

"...a brief existence is common to all things, and yet you pursue and avoid
things as if they would be eternal. A little time and your eyes will close,
and he who attends you to your grave will soon lament another."
--Marcus Aurelius

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Plan Your Epitaph References

If you want to explore the fields of death, epitaphs, and cemeteries, this is as good a list as any to start with:

If you want to explore the fields of death, epitaphs, and cemeteries,
this is as good a list as any to start with: