here lies
Grave marker start
Here lies is the traditional opening of a tombstone inscription, introducing the name of the deceased buried beneath: Here lies John Smith, beloved father.
The phrase appears in countless epitaphs and has become shorthand for death itself.
It's often used humorously or ironically to mark figurative endings: Here lies my diet, killed by birthday cake.
- tombUnderground chamber for remains
- cenotaphTomb without a body
- monumentStructure honoring someone remembered
- graveSerious and worrying
- six feet underDead and buried
laid to rest · name · date · inscription · elegy · earth · dust to dust · burial · corpse · engraving · poetic verse · cemetery · stone · wreath · commemoration · dearly departed · funeral · mausoleum
- memorialsmemorial, memorial service, memorial statue, memorials, war memorial
life announcements
here liesit's a boy
it's a girl · birth announcement · a star is born · introducing · born on
here, lie, lies, hereabout, hereabouts, hereafter, hereby, herein, hereof