Who has the time to read epitaphs any more? When people barely have the concentration required to read a facebook post or a less than 140 character flutter/twitter/filibuster or whatever, who in his right mind would want to write an epitaph? Also, if you cremate a person, it is likely to go up in smoke anyways. So, I say, it is a good idea to be very restrained in this urge to write one for yourself. No one may actually read it!
Which brings me to this series of words that begin with epi-. Like epiphany. That's a good thing. But epi-lepsy is not such a good thing. When there's an earhquake, it usually has an epicenter. So what's with this 'epi' thing? Is it good or bad? I don't know, may be linguists and etymolgicians can try and delve into this. An epicure may want to taste a lot of different kinds of food before deciding if the prefix is good or bad when applied to him.
Epic nonsense, you say? I take it as a compliment. Epi- you too.
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