i had a great book one time of epitaphs, but i dont know what happened to it. there were two really great ones which i saved but i lost. one i dont even remember, and the other was written by a fellow who must have been an atheist, and i think each line began with the letters of a word or words...either his name or the name of a philosophy or something. it was a very thoughtful and moral set of observations on life yet he was apparently wanting to display the idea that he could find no reason to believe in a creator. the poignant part of the whole thing was that his grave was continually being defaced by the relatives and visitors of the 'good folk' that were his neighbors.

i guess the one i remember most is W.C.Fields "I'd rather be in Philadelphia"

i have a tombstone already laid down where i bought a grave next to someone i loved who died...but that is in america and now i hope i will be buried in india. i think we dont use stones here. i guess forever in america will be a stone with my name and date of birth only as though i went on living forever. (i know the cemetery will resell it after some proper length of time, and i dont think my son wants it)

whatever words people remember that i said is fine with me-i wish i said something everyone would remember after i was gone, whether it was funny or sad or smart or stupid, as long as it did something to help them somehow.

once i wrote a song called 'dont remember me at all'...because too many people remember someone they knew after it is too late and in life paid no attention.

Whenever this question comes up I can only refer to the Japanese tradition of haiku death poetry. The last words of Zen Buddhist monks.

Here's are two examples:

Choko
This final scene I'll not see
to the end...my dream
is fraying.


Kaisho
Evening cherry-blossoms:
I slip the inkstone back into my kimono
this one last time.


And more examples can be found here and elsewhere I'm sure:

http://174.132.129.219/~jisei/haiku1.html

The last words of VideCorSpoon shall be;

"Tell... my university I demand... a... refund... (insert sound of me dying here)

"I have the same tie as you only that pattern is reversed."