What Do You Want On Your Tombstone?

Other celebrity epitaphs:

* I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.

— George Bernard Shaw

* Pardon me for not getting up.

— Ernest Hemingway

* That's all folks.

— Mel Blanc

Here was buried Thomas Jefferson
Author of the Declaration of American Independence
Of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom
And Father of the University of Virginia

— Thomas Jefferson

* The Best is yet to come.

— Frank Sinatra

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When I reach that great big Coffee Shop in the sky, or down below, I think I want my tombstone to read, "You can finally quit shouting at me now, because I'm already dead."

Not that I'm directing this message to anyone in particular, such as my friend Elgy.