Gravestone humor

That's actually a wonderful poem.

I was just looking at these amazing gravestones:

http://history.vineyard.net/cemetery/cemlist.htm

The art of gravestone carving is a lost one, I believe ...

Wouldn't be surprised if some of the skull-and-crossbone graves were for York Rite Freemasons. That's one of their symbols, actually....

I was paging thru the discussions (either of you have the right format to search them on the web?) and spotted this header. I knew without looking at the author it was you, Ben. That is an interesting poem...it would be neat to know if Henry was as interesting.

I like findagrave...some interesting info out there. This is one of my favorites... http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSie=1&GRi...;

I take that last back: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSie=1&GRi...;

Someone sure had a sense of humor on that one, Anita.... guess it was Jack, according to his Wikipedia page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Lemmon

Jack Lemmon died of colon cancer and metastatic cancer of the bladder on June 27, 2001.[9] He had been fighting the disease, very privately, for two years before his death. He was interred at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Westwood, California where he is buried near his friend and co-star, Walter Matthau, who died almost exactly one year before Lemmon. In typical Jack Lemmon wit, his gravestone simply reads 'Jack Lemmon — in'

There are a few other online collections:

Amog:
http://amog.com/entertainment/celebrity/mark-world-catchy-touching-...

Some of the better ones:

Ed Wynn (November 9 1886 – June 19 1966)
"Dear God - Thanks."

Jackie Gleason (February 26, 1916 – June 24, 1987)
"And away we go..."

Mel Blanc (May 30, 1908 – July 10, 1989)
"That's all folks."

George Burns (January 20, 1896 – March 9, 1996)
"Together again." (Referring to his placement next to Gracie Allen, his wife)

Roy Rogers (November 5, 1911 – July 6, 1998)
The Cowboy’s Prayer:
Oh Lord, I reckon I’m not much just by myself.
I fail to do a lot of things I ought to do.
But Lord, when trails are steep and passes high,
Help me to ride it straight the whole way through.
And when in the falling dusk I get the final call,
I do not care how many flowers they send –
Above all else the happiest trail would be for you to say to me, ‘Let’s ride,
My friend.’ Amen”.

Rodney Dangerfield (November 22, 1921 – October 5, 2004)
“There goes the neighborhood”

Merv Griffin (July 6, 1925 – August 12, 2007)
“I will not be back after these messages”

George Carlin (May 12, 1937 – June 22, 2008)
“#$%& @!&% #?!$% @?*&!@^#!* @*$! &!%?”

Manofest (apparently a "manly men's" site) has it's 25 funniest tombstones:
http://www.manofest.com/Galleries/Funny/The-25-Funniest-Tombstones-...
(At least one is photoshopped, one probably made just to be photographed, and a couple that are a bit questionable)

Of course, would be curious if anyone ran into some interesting ones while visiting graves themselves... one's you'd like to see immortalized...