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"In the pain of delivering my firstborn child, destiny brought me to the end of life." For another epitaph of the same sort, from Leontopolis, see Biblical Archaeology Review, Sept/Oct, 1992, p. 56.

So she died, then stuck her arm out of the grave and gave us this bit of wisdom huh?

Please explained just how she accomplished this feat.

And while we're at it, give me a sentence using a mother who had only one child, and she referred to him as her first born.

SD flunked this many moons ago.

"In the pain of delivering my firstborn child, destiny brought me to the end of life." For another epitaph of the same sort, from Leontopolis, see Biblical Archaeology Review, Sept/Oct, 1992, p. 56.

So she died, then stuck her arm out of the grave and gave us this bit of wisdom huh?

This is nonsensical. Don't you think a woman possibly dying in childbirth couldn't decide what she wanted as an epitaph? It doesn't mean she had to enscribe it herself.

And while we're at it, give me a sentence using a mother who had only one child, and she referred to him as her first born.

How 'bout this one? >"In the pain of delivering my firstborn child, destiny brought me to the end of life."

You haven't raised any valid objections to it. People plan for their epitaphs all the time. In fact I bet you that hardly any of the epitaphs found in history were actually carved in the granite by the actual dead person.

SD flunked this many moons ago.

I have a firstborn. If I were Jewish I would have needed to take some partridges or something to the Temple for the firstborn sacrifice. I wouldn't have to wait to see if I had a second child first. This is just absurd.