MINNEAPOLIS -- The dead speak out with pride, regret, grief and even humor in the stone and metal monuments at Lakewood Cemetery overlooking Lake Calhoun, home of more than 170,000 graves and ...

AFTER all, what is biography but extended epitaph ? Between the two, the obituary may be regarded as a sort of connecting link. But take the epitaph, pure and simple, as the seed of biography. Here ...

Each word carries a story, but not all words are imbued with emotional or cultural significance. One such word is “epitaph.” The word epitaph is greater than a mere word; it is a tribute, a memory, ...

When Patty Tiffany leads tours of the Key West Cemetery for the Historic Florida Keys Foundation, there’s one gravestone that gets a lot more attention than the elaborate grave sites and mausoleums at ...