Human beings are a terrific source of creativity. Even at the time of death. For example, consider this epitaph on a grave from the 1880s in Nantucket, Massachusetts:

Under the sod and under the trees . . . Lies the body of Jonathan Pease.
He is not here, there’s only the pod . . . Pease shelled out and went to God.

Or this one from a more recent burial:

Here lies my wife . . . Here let her lie.
Now she’s at rest . . . And so am I.

Or this one from the grave of a dentist named John Brown:

Stranger! Approach this spot with gravity!
John Brown is filling his last cavity.

Epitaphs normally seek to sum up a person’s life in just a few words.  If you had to sum up your life in just a few words, how would you do it?

Author Ernest Hemingway was once challenged to prove his skill as an auth…