It's too late to enter Luke's Death Pool,

February 15, 2000 5:44 PM

It's too late to enter Luke's Death Pool, but you can visit the previous "participants" in the game at Find a Grave. It's pretty useful, you can search by birthdate, deathdate, and by their claim to fame among other criteria. Many even have photos of the grave site like Orson Welles, Nat King Cole (died 35 years ago today), and Smokey Bear. Useful and bizarre.
posted by mathowie (5 comments total)

Gray, Henry Judd
Murderer / Corset Salesman.
posted by gleemax at 6:50 PM on February 15, 2000

That was a rather lackluster first attempt.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- William Shakespeare

- Oscar Wilde
- John Keats
- Stephen Crane
- Sylvia Plath
- Robert Browning

This is fun. I say we all write epitaphs for ourselves. (And He said, "Let there be margins" – so cross your fingers.)
posted by gleemax at 7:15 PM on February 15, 2000

smokey the bear died? who let that happen???? good god, who's next, woodsie owl?
posted by mmanning at 7:24 PM on February 15, 2000

On second thought, I doubt any of us are creative enough to write funny epitaphs. I'm not, anyway.
posted by gleemax at 11:00 AM on February 16, 2000

Hey, you forgot to point out that the photo of the grave of Orson Welles was taken by a Baldwin brother!
posted by bjennings at 6:54 PM on February 16, 2000