Plan Your Epitaph Day 2023

This may be one most likely won't wish to pursue. Today is plan your epitaph day. It is a time to consider how you might wish to be remembered throughout eternity. You do this by planning that which you wish to be cut into your tombstone.

My dearly departed and beloved grandma Ida used to tell me she felt fortunate to have seen her headstone prior to her passing.

I remember it because it was one of those waining lucid moments we had prior to her total descent into Alzheimer's and the end of all conversation with someone I dearly loved.

Regardless of what we may wish for ourselves, eventually our time upon the earth will end. The end, like the beginning is a necessary part of the circle of life.

That monument to your existence you choose to leave behind will speak regarding you after your departure and you may wish to give the matter some thought prior while you may.

Perhaps a tombstone inscription, a brief written piece commemorating who you were and what you were all about, or even verbiage on a tomb or monument in your honor or memory.

In all attempts not to sound gruesome, happy Plan Your Epitaph Day !

I take it all very lightly and in stride. I am well aware of the inevitability and really have no particular designs on eternity ...

I will likely be cremated and scattered without a marker or columbarium — unless I decide to take the plunge later — on my piece of bottom land in the Hollow Creek community of Aiken County. Those plans of course may evolve prior to that time as well.

A human being may encounter worse ends.