Finish lines (4)
'finish lines' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)
This is the entire clue.
(Other definitions for ends that I've seen before include "Completes - purposes" , "designs" , "Finishes (loose or dead, perhaps?)" , "Objectives, purposes" , "deaths" .)
(Other definitions for epitaphs that I've seen before include "Famous last words" , "Words written in memory of the dead" , "They're written in memory of people who have died" , "Inscriptions on tombstones" , "Gravestone inscriptions" .)