30 Funny Tombstones By People With An Undying Humor (2024)

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People's last wordsstick with us for a long time, but memory fades, and stone doesn't. Unless you get cremated, and your ashes end up in an urn, your remains get a grave and a headstone, and together with it - the last opportunity for a funny epitaph to entertain those who drop by for a visit.

The people below were not famous for their lives but rather because of their undyingsense of humorengraved into their funny gravestones. Fromcute punsand dadjokesfrom the afterlife to warnings about the great beyond, these funny tombstones show that death is not always so serious.

Bored Pandahas compiled a list of funny epitaphs on tombstones, proving that asense of humorcan live forever. From a delicious fudge recipe to an unapologetic joke about religion, these people are the nonliving examples of the right attitude. Scroll down to check out the deadly funny gravestones!

Which Celebrities Have Funny Epitaphs On Their Gravestones?

An epitaph, literally “on the grave” in the Greek language, is usually a text inscribed on a gravestone or a plaque to honor the dead. That said, not everyone wants to be remembered in a grave tone (pun very much intended) and might opt for something a bit more lighthearted and truer to their nature. Quite a few celebrities and famous people prove this point, and here are some funny tombstone sayings inscribed on their gravestones:

• "He died in bed." — Tombstone of renowned gunfighter Doc Holliday (1851—1887).
• "I told you I was sick." — Tombstone of Spike Milligan (1918—2002), British actor.
• "I'm in on a plot." — Tombstone of Alfred Hitchco*ck (1899-1980), British director.
• "For a good time, dig." — Epitaph of Platy Paul.
• "He neither drank, smoked, nor rode a bicycle. Living frugally and saving his money, he died early, surrounded by greedy relatives. It was a great lesson to me." — John Barrymore (1882—1942), American actor.
• "That's All Folks!" — Epitaph of Mel Blanc, The Man of a Thousand Voices.

While for some funny tombstones have no place in a cemetery, for others, it might be the ultimate last chance to show the world who they were and how they’d like to be remembered. And why not?

What Are Some Famous Epitaphs?

Funny headstones or serious ones, some are still better than the rest. And by better, we mean they got famous and were often quoted with the passing of time. If you’ve always wondered who got those tombstone ideas to the point, here are some sayings that became just as well-known as the people behind them:

• “Cursed be he that moves my bones” – tombstone of William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British writer.
• “O.K...I gotta go now.” – Dee Dee Ramone (1952 - 2002), American musician.
• “The best is yet to come” – Frank Sinatra (1915 - 1998), American singer.
• “Free at last. Free at last. Thank God Almighty I’m free at last.” – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968), American civil rights activist.
• “Quoth the raven…Nevermore” – Edgar Allan Poe (1849 - 1875), American writer.
• "Don't try." – Charles Bukowski (1920 - 1994), American writer.

Unsurprisingly, most of the famous and funny epitaphs can be found on writers’ gravestones; after all, they’re the people who know the exact power of words!

Now, are you ready for more funny gravestone names? If so, there’s still a whole list to go through! And if you were wondering where you could use these epitaphs, we have an idea—turn them into Halloween tombstone names when the next All Hallows Eve comes around.

Šarūnė is a List Curator here at Bored Panda with a BA in Communication. Before BP, she traveled quite a bit and now could tell you some interesting stories about Alaskan black bears or how to survive +35°C while hiking in the Portuguese mountains. Later, she worked as a freelance copywriter for a travel agency until one day, she just became a bored panda. Now, Šarūnė can easily create a list of "30 Reasons Why Dogs Are Better Than Cats".

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