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John Keats, great poet, who died in 1821, wrote his own epitaph:
“Here lies one whose name was writ in water.”
The full version was in fact:
This Grave
contains all that was Mortal
of a
Young English Poet
Who
on his Death Bed
in the Bitterness of his Heart
at the Malicious Power of his Enemies
Desired
these words to be engraved on his Tomb Stone
“Here lies One Whose Name was writ in Water.”

Effie Jean Robinson (1897-1922)his epitaph reads:
"Come blooming youths, as you pass by,
And on these lines do cast an eye.
As you are now, so once was I;
As I am now, so must you be;
Prepare for death and follow me."

By a coal miner:
"Gone Underground For Good"

On a dentist:
"Stranger tread
This ground with gravity.
Dentist Brown
Is filling his last cavity."
Edinburgh, Scotland

On a spinster postmistress:
"Returned--Unopened"
In a North Carolina cemetery

"Grieve not for me my husband dear.
I am not dead but sleeping here.
With patience wait - perforce to die
And in a short time you'll come to I."
And the husband added:
"I am not grieved, my dearest life.
Sleep on, I've got another wife.
Therefore, I cannot come to thee
For I must go and live with she."

And lastly,
Some atheists claim to fame:
"Here lies
an Atheist
All dressed up
And no place to go."

Thurmont, Maryland