“Life’s a laugh and death’s a joke, it’s true. Just remember that the last laugh is on you,” sang Eric Idle in Monty Python’s Life of Brian. Whatever else happens and in whatever ways we’re all different from each other, there is one common experience we will all inevitably have. And to calm some of that existential dread, we’ve compiled some funny epitaphs from actual tombstones.
This humorous selection features some last laughs from people that were undoubtedly funny during their lifetime. And to find out more about how to approach death with humor, Bored Panda reached out to Jason Roeder, the author of Griefstrike! The Ultimate Guide To Mourning.
#1 Pet Cemetery
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#2 Found In Biddeford, Maine
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#3 The Headstone Of A Lone Texan Liberal
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#4 Adams To Atoms
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#5 Saw This Beauty At The Los Angeles Pet Cemetery
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#6 Mom’s Recipe For Sugar Cookies
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#7 Let ‘Er Rip
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#8 Honestly, The Best Tombstone I’ve Ever Seen
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#9 I Told You I Was Sick
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#10 She’s Surely Going To Hell
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#11 Sucks To Be Me
#12 Things That Make Ya Go… Hmm
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#13 I Do Work For Cemeteries And This Is One Of The More Bizzare Quotes I’ve Seen On A Headstone
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#14 Oh Well
#15 Do Not Enter
#16 A Cemetery Is The Last Place I Thought I’d Get Rick Rolled
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#17 Rodney Dangerfield’s Funny Tombstone
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#18 This Tombstone On A Beach Graveyard
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#19 Have A Seat
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#20 Everything About This Tombstone
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#21 Nobody’s Perfect
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#22 I Have Nothing Further To Say
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#23 The Doctor Will See You Soon
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#24 Grave Of An Unknown Man Who Died Eating Library Paste. Goldfield Nevada Pioneer Cemetery
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#25 Epic Epitaph
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#26 Went In The Hole With This One
#27 Genealogists Never Really Die
#28 This Is My Favorite Gravestone In The Cemetery I Mow. I Am Amused Easily
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#29 I Chuckle Every Time I Go To The Cemetery
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#30 A Match Made In Heaven. Taken In A Graveyard In My Town
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