tombstone

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Celan called it a tombstone for his mother.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

In Ain Ebel's cemetery, Jallad caresses her son's tombstone, surrounded by women trying to comfort her.

From Barron's • Mar. 16, 2026

“When I die,” Rob Reiner once joked to an interviewer, “I want my tombstone to read, ‘Now I’m in this place!’”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 15, 2025

Unlike the vast majority of his predecessors, he will not be buried in St Peter's, but in a church dedicated to the Virgin Mary in central Rome, beneath a tombstone inscribed only with his name.

From BBC • Apr. 23, 2025

His tombstone would be a simple plaque, inscribed: “Herbert Goldfarb, 1948-?” And then: “He rode Sunflower.”

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols