Source: 'Photo taken by Zoe Weil' Last week, I had the opportunity to experience the power of my epitaph. How is that possible given that I’m not dead yet? It happened because I deliberately wrote my ...

An epitaph is a single sentence or phrase usually placed on a tombstone. This short comment is supposed to summarize an individual's life or accomplishments in a single phrase. Epitaphs were very ...

I went to a friend's funeral today. There was standing room only. As tears flowed from nearly everyone present, I was thinking about my own epitaph on my grave, and my own inevitable funeral to be.

The greatest philosophies and tributes to those great Irish departed to reflect on and pay tribute to those who served this Memorial Day. On Memorial Day it is fitting to read some of the greatest ...

LET No MAN WRITE MY EPITAPH (467 pp.)—Willard Motley—Random House ($4.95). Grant Holloway is a Chicago free-lance magazine writer with “ears like wire recorders.” Halfway through Let No Man Write My ...