Epitaphs of the Rich and Famous

  Epitaphs are, above all, a literary tribute that the living pay to the dead. They’re texts that are usually inscribed on a person’s grave or headstone. Formerly, it was extremely common for people to invent epitaphs, especially if the person who’d died was a personality or someone famous. However, today, funeral rites have been simplified. Furthermore, death has become a topic few want to know about and it isn’t willingly spoken about. Indeed, almost everyone wants to avoid this particular issue at all costs. That’s why epitaphs have fallen into disuse and now only temporary and impersonal tombs tend to be…