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15-of-the-Best-Short-Epitaphs-Ever-MainPhoto

Frank Sinatra with Grace Kelly in High Society, 1956.

“Plan Your Epitaph Day” is observed on April 6 every year. The day is a chance for control freaks to plan out what their gravestones are going to say. An epitaph may be a simple sentence or a poem or verse. Poets have been known to compose their own epitaphs prior to their death, as William Shakespeare did. The Bard must have been feeling a little concerned when he wrote it, as the last line reads: “Curst be he yt (that) moves my bones.”