epitaph

In words he shared with teenagers, Prefontaine wrote his own best epitaph: “To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.”

Instead, it seems that American exceptionalism will play a prominent role in the epitaph for American democracy.

There’s an abundance of small slabs, simple epitaphs like Our Baby.

If we were to assign his TV father an epitaph, he could do a lot worse than the unvarnished speech that closes the first season.

The circumstances of the child’s death are eventually established as being bizarre and farcical, and along with a recurring gag involving the epitaph on her little headstone, it’s all supposed to be hilarious.