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 ...

Every summer that I can remember as a kid, Mom insisted Pop drive to visit the gravesites of both the Christman’s, in Lehigh County, and the Kohler’s, in Berks County. Mom also took us on walks to the ...

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 ...

Abraham Lincoln’s is the most famous epitaph — “Now he belongs to the ages” — and notes writer Adam Gopnik, it’s “still perhaps the best.” However, Gopnik’s 2007 New Yorker article raises the ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...