The survey came from a Facebook poll with 574 responses.

Spike Milligan "I told you I was ill"

Oscar Wilde "Either those curtains go or I do"

Frank Sinatra "The best is yet to come"

Mel Blanc "That's all, folks!"

Frank Carson "What a way to lose weight"

Winston Churchill "I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter"

John Belushi “I may be gone but Rock and Roll lives on”

Bette Davis “She did it the hard way”

Humphrey Bogart "I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis"

Peter Ustinov "Please keep off the grass"


OTHER CELEBRITY EPITAPHS
Stephen Fry “With thanks to the ingraver for speling my epitarf propperly”

Ann Widdecombe “Go tell the chief whip, passers-by, that here, alack, unpaired I lie.”

Louis Theroux “So would you call THIS ‘man flu’?”

Alison Steadman “One place I don’t need my lipstick”

Stephen Merchant “I'd live my life exactly the same again. Except three inches shorter.”

Chris Kamara “Unbelievable, Jeff – I've gone!”

Edwina Currie “She made a difference”

Bill Oddie “Please can I try again?”

Fay Ripley “Well now I have Cold Feet”