United Kingdom, Oct. 2 -- Ozzy Osbourne wanted his epitaph to be: "I told you I wasn't feeling well".

The Black Sabbath singer, who died aged 76 after playing his final concert before 42,000 fans at Villa Park in July, lifted the joke from comedy icon Spike Milligan and set out his wishes for his burial in his forthcoming posthumous memoir Back to the Beginning.

In it, he writes about how he and his wife Sharon discussed being buried together and how his family "don't even want to think about" death.

He said in an extract from the book obtained by The Times: "When the end does come, I don't want to be cremated. It's like you were never here. You're just a bag of dust. That's not for me. I wanna make the flowers grow.

"The only convers...