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The final punchline

British people are showing their comic side with their last words on gravestones, according to a new poll. Spike Milligan’s famous “I told you I was ill” is the nation’s favourite epitaph.

Winston Churchill came second with: “I’m ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.” Third was Frank Sinatra with: “The best is yet to come.”

The Age Concern survey of 2,000 people showed that many just want to be remembered with a smile - hence the popularity of “another one bites the dust.”

Here at bdaily, we like the words attributed to Oscar Wilde on his deathbed (though not his actual last words): “Either this wallpaper goes, or I do.”

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .