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When Dave Nadelberg of Mortified used to visit his mother’s grave, he would look around at the nearby gravestones and see similar - or even the exact same - epitaphs for lots of different people. And it made him curious: who were these people, really? What were their personalities, what happened in their lives? And didn’t they deserve something more meaningful, more personal, than these bland and repetitive epitaphs? So when Dave’s father died a few years later, Dave was determined to choose better words to represent him in perpetuity.
The transcript of this episode is at theallusionist.org/transcripts/epitaph.
The second part of this pair of episodes is at theallusionist.org/precious.
Have you had to choose words to describe a person after they could speak for themselves? Have you even decided on what you want your own epitaph to be? Let me know on Facebook or Twitter @allusionistshow.
You can hear Dave on a couple of other Allusionists: Open Me part 2, about letter-writing, and Spill Your Guts, about diaries.
YOUR RANDOMLY SELECTED WORD FROM THE DICTIONARY:
gyrus
CREDITS:
Dave Nadelberg is the founder of Mortified. At getmortified.com, hear the podcast, attend/perform in a live show, read the books, watch the TV shows and documentary; and follow the show on Twitter @mortified and at facebook.com/mortifiedshow.
This episode was produced by me, Helen Zaltzman.
Martin Austwick makes the music that you hear in every episode. Download his songs at palebirdmusic.com and listen to his new podcast Year of the Bird about the songs he writes.
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