EPITAPH Writing Contest (with a FREE BOOK PRIZE!) discussion

Use this discussion thread to submit your epitaph between 7/14 and 7/20.

If you don't live for something you will die for nothing.

Thank you, Rafael. Yours is the first submission. We'll gather together all the submissions from this week and the winner will be announced in August. There will be a winner for each week-- 3 winners in all, and they will be published on the Johns Hopkins blog. I hope there will be lots of good submissions. If so, I'll try to write a blog post in August that incorporates all the outstanding ones, as well as the very few winners. Stay tuned. By the way: I placed some "tips" for writing epitaphs on the Discussion Board too. You can submit more than once, but only once with each email. Sincerely, Michael W.

He ran as free as a young stag,
but like the stag's rippling shadow
he also got entangled in the leaves.

Thanks, Daniel, for this fleeting image.
Michael