The Importance of The Dash
The Importance of The Dash What is the dash? Epitaphs usually have at least three items on them: the date that a person was born, the date that a person passed from this life, and a small dash connecting those two dates. One quick look at an epitaph and what a person will often times do is calculate the math. Perhaps, it is instinct to try to figure out how long another person lived, and to make assumptions about the quality of their life based on that information. However, a most overlooked detail of the epitaph is the dash. What [...]