"They were practical."
Do what makes sense if you think it should say
"Their life made sense."
Do what the world wants if you believe in the epitaph
"They did what the world wanted them to do."
But if you want it to read
"They lived every second they were given
and touched the sky every chance they had,
they burned and blazed in all the colours the eye can see
and left a hole shaped like them in the world
when they left."
Then do something else.
