What will you be remembered for?

It can be a spooky thing wandering through a cemetery, but it can also be a fascinating exploration of what matters and what doesn’t matter.

The beauty of the epitaph (the writing on a tombstone) is that it can encapsulate the whole life of a person in just a few lines. The epitaphs of certain celebrities reveal a lot about the life they lived and what they left behind.

Mel Blanc was the voice of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and a whole bunch of other famous Looney Toons characters. The famous words of Elmer Fudd sound a more sombre note on Blanc’s tombstone: "That's All Folks!"

The author of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, C. S. Lewis’ epitaph gently points to the inevitability of death for all of us: “Man must endure his going hence.”

William Shakespeare seemed to be grateful that his body would be buried, yet concerned that cash-hungry Shakespeare buffs might dig him up years later: “Blest be the man that spares these stones, and curst be he that moves my bones.”

Movie star Bette Davis, a female actor in a world dominated by men, now has an award named after her – the result of a life dedicated to changing the way people perceive women on the screen. Her remains lie under a headstone with the words: “She did it the hard way.”

Then there was the Australian artist, Tom Roberts. Unlike most other painters of his time, Roberts was not too keen on depicting the landscape as he thought it should look like. He was more interested in painting things as he saw them. He went against what was popular and his work is now famous the world over. His epitaph is simple: “Tom Roberts. Artist.”