What would you like to have as your epitaph some day? Have you ever given that any thought? What will people say about you after you’re gone? It’s always interesting to me to read some of the humorous inscriptions that have appeared on tombstones in days gone past. For example, here is one that should have been edited:

Here lies Col. Brown . . . Shot in battle by an enemy soldier.

“Well Done Thou Good and Faithful Servant.”

A tombstone in Girard, Pennsylvania carries an epitaph that probably would be the source of a good lawsuit.  It tells of Ellen Shannon, twenty‑six, “Who,” according to her epitaph, “was fatally burned March 21, 1870 by the explosion of a lamp filled with ‘R. E. Danforth’s Non-Explosive Burning Fluid.’”

Sounds ready-made for a class action lawsuit. I can hear the tel…