As today is the Day of the Dead, here are 10 epitaphs to make you think.
It is so soon that I am done for I wonder what I was begun for.(Anonymous child’s grave, Cheltenham)
Life is a jest and all things show it. I thought so once but now I know it. Own epitaph by playwright John Gay.
I knew if I stayed around long enough something like this would happen. Epitaph chosen by George Bernard Shaw
If you seek his monument, look around (to Sir Christopher Wren, St Paul's cathedral)
Free at last, free at last, thank God almighty I’m free at last Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
“Well played” - English cricketer Harry Bagshaw, followed by “For when the one Great Scorer comes to write against your name, He writes not that you won or lost but how you played the game.”
Robert Frost Epitaph: “I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.” Robert Frost, taken from his poem The Lesson for Today.
Into the mosaic of victory our most precious piece was laid. Marine Edward William Durn. His Majesty's Landing Craft Mechanised 239, Royal Marines Aged 17. Soldier who died in the D-Day landings.
“Here I lie by the churchyard door, Here I lie because I am poor, The further in the more you pay Yet here lie I as warm as they.” Daniel Gumb, Linkinhorne.
I will not be right back after this message. TV show host Merv Griffin.
NEW!!
Beta
(Combat Team Series #2)
Steff was abducted by an evil alien race, the Orbs, at fourteen. Used as a weapon for years, he eventually escapes, but his problems are just beginning. How does a man support himself when his only work experience is a paper round and using an Orb bio-integrated gun?
Warlord is an alien soldier who knows little but war. When the centuries-old conflict which ravaged his planet ends, he seeks out another world where his skills are still relevant. There are always wars on Earth, it seems. However, none of Earth's powerful armies want him.
Natalie has always wanted to visit England and sees a chance to do so while using her martial arts skills, but there are sacrifices she must make in order to fulfil her dream.
Maggie resorted to crime to fund her sister's medical care. She uses her genetic variant abilities to gain access to the rooms of wealthy hotel guests. The Ballards look like rich pickings, but they are not what they seem. When Maggie targets them, little does she know that she is walking into a trap.
Hotel owner Hamilton Lonsdale puts together a combat team to pit against those of other multi-millionaires. He recruits Warlord, Natalie, Maggie and Steff along with a trained gorilla, a probability-altering alien, a stockbroker whose work of art proved to be much more than he'd bargained for, a marketing officer who can create psionic forcefields, a teleporting member of the landed gentry, and a socially awkward fixer. This is Combat Team Beta.
Steff never talks about his time with the Orbs, until he finds a woman who lived through it, too. Steff believes he has finally found happiness, but it is destined to be short-lived. He is left with an unusual legacy which he and Team Beta struggle to comprehend; including why something out there seems determined to destroy it.
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