gravestone

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Considering his own mortality, while consumed by daily news of death and destruction on the network he founded, Turner mused about what one day might be inscribed on his gravestone.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 6, 2026

“People sell those markers, even those little vases you put on them, and melt them down for money,” says Rebecca Meyer, 48, a gravestone conservationist and president of Epoch Preservation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 14, 2026

On his gravestone it reads, "Inventor of Cluedo".

From BBC • Nov. 23, 2025

In the cemetery, Munzanza's mother Florence knelt by his gravestone and wept.

From Barron's • Oct. 13, 2025

I was about to turn away when I saw a small constellation of rocks, stacked as if on a gravestone.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman