11 Jun 2009, 3:27 pm
"I'm dead now" covers it really 
11 Jun 2009, 4:01 pm
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11 Jun 2009, 4:32 pm
How about "so long and thanks for all the fish"
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12 Jun 2009, 11:45 am
Be careful with that...
The poet Spike Milligan wanted that on his headstone too.
But the diocese didn't want it, and his family fought with them for 2 years where he had no headstone.
At last they allowed it, but it had to be in Irish so noone probably could understand it (he had Irish roots).
So it became:
Dúirt mé leat go raibh mé breoite.
Another idea could be:
Goodbye and thank you for today, now there's no more in Friday Cinema, really!
(A quote from a Danish children's program, Fredagsbio / Friday Cinema, where one of the participating puppets used to close the window and say goodbye. I sometimes use the quote myself if I say goodbye to somebody.
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12 Jun 2009, 12:56 pm
A few variations on a theme:
"I wonder what happens if I do this"
"What could possibly go wrong?"
For scientists there is also "It's publish or perish, and I didn't publish" or "Published, but perished anyway"
"I don't intend to achieve immortality through my work, I intend to achieve immortality through not dying." It would be possible to add "Oh, bugger!" but I think the epitaph would be more effective without.
But really, my favourite has no words at all. Just put a large lightning rod on the headstone, and the largest available model of this sort of switch:
