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Of course then you have some that leave detailed instructions.
Such as:
http://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/jeffersons-gravestone
in case you can't tell, I find this subject fascinating
Such as:
![Tombstone.jpg](http://www.monticello.org/sites/default/files/uploaded-content-images/Tombstone.jpg)
"...on the faces of the Obelisk the following inscription, & not a word more:
Here was buried
Thomas Jefferson
Author of the Declaration of American Independence
of the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom
Father of the University of Virginia
"because by these," he explained, "as testimonials that I have lived, I wish most to be remembered."
http://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/jeffersons-gravestone
in case you can't tell, I find this subject fascinating