Marlowe unwittingly wrote his own epitaph in that of Dr. Faustus:-

If he had chosen his own epitaph it might have read:

With the witty Piron he could not ironically anticipate his own epitaph thus-

Mr. Coleridge wrote, in his life-time, his own epitaph, as follows:-

But let us take Mendelssohn's own words for his own epitaph:

Elizabeth Barrett Browning suggested her own epitaph could well be.

I could as soon forget my own epitaph as this.

Some years before his death he wrote his own epitaph.

And she looked as edifying as her own epitaph.

Somehow like that would it run, if he were to write his own epitaph at present.

Reading these five sonnets now, it seems as if he had in them written his own epitaph.

Besides this was reading his own epitaph.

Why did he not learn at the feet of Sir Thomas Lucy and write his own epitaph?

Here is his own epitaph, one of the most perfect things in form and substance in the English language:-

His own epitaph might be that old one eskhatos tou idiou genous+ -Hewas the last of his race!

Close friend, film-maker Art O' Briain, believes that Bracken would have endorsed the lines from poet Robert Frost for his own epitaph: