There's not a lot of point to the headstones right now except to show that you did a dumb and died. But they could be AWESOME if we could add epitaphs. Maybe not the person that dies, but the people who witnessed it, or friends who stumble across it or something. It would end up being in between notes and signs, since you can't remove them but they don't last forever.
I can't be the only one who misses this about Oregon Trail on school computers.