gravestone
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Considering his own mortality, while consumed by daily news of death and destruction on the network he founded, Turner mused about what one day might be inscribed on his gravestone.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 2026
“People sell those markers, even those little vases you put on them, and melt them down for money,” says Rebecca Meyer, 48, a gravestone conservationist and president of Epoch Preservation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 14, 2026
In the cemetery, Munzanza's mother Florence knelt by his gravestone and wept.
From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2025
A gravestone for Ebenezer Scrooge, left behind after the filming of a 1984 movie adaptation of A Christmas Carol, has been smashed.
From BBC ● Nov. 25, 2024
It was crowded right up by another gravestone, head to head, the way people are crowded in a charity ward when there isn't enough space.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
A ragtag online group, the “Grave Marker Recovery Team,” hunts down gravestones that have been stolen, typically to sell at antique shows as accents for upscale decorating.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 14, 2026
Happy Valley used to be covered in gravestones.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2025
Visitors to cemeteries in Glasgow have criticised a "disgusting" decision by the city council to place large stickers on gravestones.
From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2024
But when I go to these cemeteries and take pictures of the gravestones, I’m not usually scared.
From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2024
One of the gravestones in the cemetery near the earliest church has an anchor on it and an hourglass, and the words In Hope.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
