Meaning and Definition of Epitaph

Definition of epitaph

Epitaph is a concept that has widespread use because we use it to refer to that registration, message placed in a grave and that is intended to honor, pay tribute to the deceased person whose remains rest there.
It is recurrent that some people before his death make you know the ones they loved ones and close friends what they would like it be placed in his epitaph when dying, then, in that case, the same late is the creator of his epitaph. Insofar as, in others cases, the family or friends of a person deceased tend to devote you to the deceased any phrase or expression that in its life was significant or it describes in some point, and the stamping in the epitaph.
Then there are epitaphs that consist of phrases from some admired author, or which consist of the phrase or chorus of a song that the deceased loved.
Another common question around the epitaphs occurs around writers who themselves are those who created his own epitaph.
Also religion tends to play a role at the behest of the epitaphs given that the sacred books of the religions, such is the case of the Bible, the Koran or the Talmud usually provide the epitaphs of those very believers deceased phrases.
On the other hand, aphorisms, which are those phrases or short statements that are proposed in the sciences or the arts as principles or maxims, tend to dominate in the universe of the epitaphs.
Generally, to the epitaphs he registers them on a tombstone or on a plate. The stone is a flat stone and very solid, sculpted with a rectangular format, in which the epitaph is precisely recorded.
The epitaphs are present in our culture from actually remote times, the ancient Greeks, the Roman civilization, especially its Emperors used them widely to honor and honor their most famous dead.
And also this custom comes to our days, i.e., not is faded or much less, but still being very common that in them tombstones of unknown or of personalities destacadisimas is register personal epitaphs for honor them after his death.