12 of the greatest ways famous people wanted to be remembered on their tombstone
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Your epitaph - the text written on a headstone - is the last thing you can say to the world.
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Sometimes it's a matter of getting your own account of your life out there. Richard Nixon, disgraced by Watergate, wanted to be remembered as a peacemaker.
Others, like F. Scott Fitzgerald or Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., highlight a favorite line from their major works.
Or you might just want your bones to be left alone, like William Shakespeare, who was buried with a curse.
Keep scrolling for the best in headstones.
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Drake Baer contributed to an earlier version of this story.
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