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Laughing At Death

Posted: 9:10 am EDT March 25, 2008Updated: 12:07 pm EDT March 25, 2008

Although most people think there is nothing funny about death -- in some cases, humor can be found where you least expect it! Here are some interesting epitaphs we found and links to even more.

Found on a Colorado grave:
Bill Blake
Was hanged by mistake.

Boot Hill Cemetery, Tombstone, Arizona:
Here lays Butch.
We planted him raw.
He was quick on the trigger
But slow on the draw.

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Found in a London, England cemetery:
Here lies Ann Mann,
Who lived an old maid
But died an old Mann.
Dec. 8, 1767

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Found in a Georgia cemetery:
I told you I was sick!

Anna Hopewell's grave in Enosburg Falls, Vermont:
Here lies the body of our Anna
Done to death by a banana
It wasn't the fruit that laid her low
But the skin of the thing that made her go.

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Someone determined to be anonymous in Stowe, Vermont:
I was somebody.
Who, is no business
Of yours.

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Born 1903 - Died 1922:
Looked up the elevator shaft to see if
the car was on the way down.
It was.

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