Two epitaphs that I like. The first is sheer hearsay, I have no proof that it is correct butI was told that Perchy French when challenged to provide his own epitaph came up with, 'Remember me is all I ask, but yet If memory becomes a task, Forget.

The other is from a favourite book, Steinbeck's 'Travels With Charley In Search of America'. It is the epitaph of Robert John Creswell, died 1845 aged twenty six. "Alas that one whose darnthly joy had often to trust in heaven should canty thus sudden to from all it's hopes benivens and though thy love for off remore that dealt the dog pest thou left to prove thy sufferings while below". Steinbeck's response to the man who recited it for him was "It's wonderful....Lewis Carroll could have written it. I almost know what it means".