Halloween tombstone epitaphs can be funny, spooky or replicated from real life.
Tombstones are used to mark the head of a grave and were initially inscribed with simple signs or initials. Over time, they have developed into repositories of information about the deceased such as dates of birth and death. "Slogans," better known as "epitaphs," are sometimes added as reminders of the deeds or philosophies of the deceased. For Halloween, you can create a cemetery full of tombstones bearing funny, famous, spooky or "real life" epitaphs. Does this Spark an idea?
Funny Epitaphs
Create a Halloween graveyard that causes a giggle rather than a gasp by decorating your tombstones with funny epitaphs. Some to consider, collected from Quote Mountain are: "I was somebody. Who, is no business of yours!;" "I told you I was sick!;" "Gone away, owin' more than he could pay;" "Here lies the body of Jonathan Blake; stepped on the gas instead of the brake." The All About Halloween website offers funny names to put on your tombstones, including: "Otta B. Alive," "M. T. Tomb,""Izzy Gone," "I. M. Gone," "Roland Stone: Gathering No Moss" and "Dracula: Fangs for the Memories."
Famous Epitaphs
Create a celebrity graveyard full of tombstones that offer some famous names with epitaphs. Famous Quotes website provides epitaph quotes for Jesse James -- "Murdered by a traitor and a coward whose name is not worthy to appear here," Dean Martin -- "Everybody loves somebody sometime," Virginia Woolf -- "Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O death!" Bette Davis -- "She did it the hard way," George Washington -- "Looking into the portals of eternity teaches that the brotherhood of man is inspired by God's word; then all prejudice of race vanishes away," Frank Sinatra -- "The best is yet to come" and Oscar Wilde -- "Alien tears will fill for him pity's long broken ern, for his mourners will be outcast men, and outcasts always mourn."
Spooky Epitaphs
You can suggest that the graveyard is full by ghosts by adding spooky tombstone epitaphs from All About Halloween like "I'll be back," "C.U. Sune," "Stella Live," "Bach Agenn" or "Will B. Back." Use epitaphs that give the gruesome sense of bodily decay such as "Rott N. Flesh," "Rick Amortis," "Good N. Rotten" and "Dee Cayed." Create a graveyard of spooky characters with epitaphs for Jeffrey Dahmer -- "Mmm...mmm...good" and Count Dracula -- "1236, 1458, 1525, 1703, 1823, 1955, (add the year of your Halloween graveyard)." Add to these the names of Halloween party guests or neighbors, with epitaphs such as "Connection terminated" or "I've done this a million times!"
Epitaphs From Real Graveyards
Recreate real tombstone epitaphs to give your display and authentic feel. The Innocent English website offers these examples: "Goembel, John E./1867-1946/The defense rests," "Jedidiah Goodwin/Auctioneer/Born 1828/Going!/Going!!Gone!!!/1876," "Here lies Lester Moore/Four slugs/From a forty-four/No Les/No More," "Rebecca Freeland/1741/She drank good ale/good punch and wine/And lived to the age of 99," and "Here lies Johnny Yeast/Pardon me for not rising/Ruidoso, New Mexico." You can give your Halloween tombstones a local flavor by visiting a nearby graveyard for real-life epitaph ideas.
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