MINNEAPOLIS -- The dead speak out with pride, regret, grief and even humor in the stone and metal monuments at Lakewood Cemetery overlooking Lake Calhoun, home of more than 170,000 graves and ...

David Jones / CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) Famous epitaphs offer a glimpse into what made some of the most culturally significant people in the ...

A recent sojourn to a cemetery reminded me that even in death, many people still have something to get off their chests. Yes, I am referring of course to epitaphs. Defined as a phrase or form of words ...

Every summer that I can remember as a kid, Mom insisted Pop drive to visit the gravesites of both the Christman’s, in Lehigh County, and the Kohler’s, in Berks County. Mom also took us on walks to the ...

Epitaphs etched into ancient tombstones can sometimes tell stories overlooked by historians. This is especially true of epitaphs for women. A prime example are memorials from the Tang dynasty (618-907 ...

As the year 2017 lies on its deathbed, it's perhaps a fitting time to review the somewhat lost art of epitaphs. With more than 21,000 funeral homes in the U.S., and 10,500 cemeteries, there's no ...

Source: 'Photo taken by Zoe Weil' Last week, I had the opportunity to experience the power of my epitaph. How is that possible given that I’m not dead yet? It happened because I deliberately wrote my ...