Everybody's Book of Epitaphs: Being for the Most Part What the Living Think of the Dead Apologetics ISBN13: 9780935842050 ISBN10: 0935842055 Material

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Everybody's Book of Epitaphs: Being for the Most Part What the Living Think of the Dead Apologetics ISBN13: 9780935842050 ISBN10: 0935842055 MaterialEpitaphs were for centuries looked upon as being as necessary as dying: or if the necessity of death be doubted as necessary as funerals. At any rate they held as important a place in the funereal etiquette of the past as the pomp and show appear to hold in many cases today. Very seldom, however, was the epitaph a record of fact or an expression of hope. Much oftener and if it were only occasionally it would be too often they had no relation to fact;