Epitaphs etched into ancient tombstones can sometimes tell stories overlooked by historians. This is especially true of epitaphs for women. A prime example are memorials from the Tang dynasty (618-907 ...

Each word carries a story, but not all words are imbued with emotional or cultural significance. One such word is “epitaph.” The word epitaph is greater than a mere word; it is a tribute, a memory, ...

AFTER all, what is biography but extended epitaph ? Between the two, the obituary may be regarded as a sort of connecting link. But take the epitaph, pure and simple, as the seed of biography. Here ...

You can’t rattle a cemetery gate without shaking loose another collection of epitaph examples on the internet. Some of these tombstone epitaphs are so famous that they’ve been repeated at any number ...

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 ...