Canadians are pretty careful when it comes to putting words on our graves. We don't get terribly sentimental or mushy or long winded, but here and there are lovely surprises. Wiithout using many words, this one is always a heartbreaker...Walk Softly for a Dream Lies Buried Here.

Sometimes, there's humour. Weep not for me now, Weep for me never, For I'm going to do nothing, Forever and ever. That's known as the Tired Woman's epitaph.

Of course epitaphs are biographical like this one that makes you think—The Last of the Muleskinners, or this one—The Last Survivor of General Custer, words that appear and are somewhat true on a gravemarker in Three Hills, AB.

And then there's the epitaph that everyone mentions but is seldom found—I told you I was sick.

The book contains over 100 actual epitaphs from Canadian graveyards, another way of reading about our history!