Your epitaph — the text written on a headstone — is the last thing you can say to the world.
Sometimes it's a matter of getting your own account of your life out there. Richard Nixon, disgraced by Watergate, wanted to be remembered a peacemaker.
Others highlight a favorite line from their major works, like F. Scott Fitzgerald or Martin Luther King, Jr.
Or you might just want your bones to be left alone, like William Shakespeare, who was buried with a curse.
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