Based on your persistent nightmare, what will you choose as your epitaph? Mine: Here lies the one who prepared all his life for a race that got cancelled at the last moment.
I don't know what a 'persistent nightmare' is, but my favorite epitaph (not original with me) is: "Here lies Bookster - he done his damnedest".
Here Lies Link the Writer Born: 1989. Died: ??? Here lies someone who was never prepared, never ready, never able to prevent the worst thing possible from ever happening. Yet he's prepared for all of them, coming up with all sorts of solutions for all sorts of problems. Cause of death? Falling in the bathtub because he's such a frickin' klutz! Oh, and he had some story ideas and stuff, but...yeah... --------------
Here lies someone who never escaped the torments at the hands of those that needed a hobby. No one came and no one escaped, so it would seem hell is more for the living since the dead don't complain. 1987-207-