The more I sit with Ruscha’s epitaphs, the less unexpected his love for plants becomes.

Hence, moviegoers understandably viewed "Let It Be," along with the film’s soundtrack, as epitaphs of sorts.

Even on a chilly day, visitors were weaving through tree-lined pathways to take in epitaphs from artists, philosophers and beloved residents.

Both inside the Cathedral and out, there were so many heartfelt epitaphs paid to Charlton's life, but it was possibly Reverend Grace Thomas who best summed up his legacy.

And so, every New Year's Day the words of Amundsen and Scott, inscribed as epitaphs at the geographic South Pole, are ceremonially moved to the newly measured, precise bottom of the earth.