Written on my Grave

"Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt" is the phrase Kurt Vonnegut says ought to be inscribed on his grave. Knowing he died in 2007, I am curious as to what is actually inscribed on his headstone. Reading this part of the novel made me wonder what would be written on my grave when I die. How would other people sum up the way I have lived my life? What few words would they use to describe me? What words would I use to sum up my life?
I want the inscription to be something that will reflect the live I lived and the way I chose to live it. I want it to be something more meaningful than my name and a couple of dates. I'm not saying that I want it to be fancy or beautiful, nor that I expect anyone to remember me regardless of the inscription. That's not what I'm saying at all. I just think that I would like to leave something of myself behind, and what better to leave behind than words?
I've thought about it a bit since I finished reading the book, but everything I think of seems cheesy and stupid (not that I expected anything better), but I keep coming back to one theme: hope. Not to steal the message from Vonnegut's gravestone inscription, which, by the way, is one of my favourite novel quotes of all time, but I think the message I want to convey is relatively the same. If I could tell a person one thing I have learned about myself, it would be that I need hope to keep going, and somehow I always find it. I would give up my life before I gave up hope. So, tentatively, this is kind of what I want written on my gravestone when I die: "Even when I was brought to my knees I could look up to find that hope never dies."