What do you want written on your tombstone?

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I'm not sure what I want on mine yet
But I heard a really funny one.........it read

I told you I was sick.

This would actually qualify as chitchat...even if it has aslight necrofeliac aura to it.

I'm not sure if I will even have a tomb stone. I at first, wanted to be buried standing up and faceing east.

Now with the technology we have I may consider being placed in a display case. In a private mosolium, so that my next generation of decendants, can see thier famous grandfather anytime.

[Edited on 1-11-2003 by ADVISOR]

Hmm, not sure what mine would say, but I've read some really good ones before.

"Here lies John Blake, who stepped on the gas, instead of the brake."

I don't even want to be buried, I want to be thrown from a helicopter and left where I land, like George Carlin suggested in Napalm and Sillyputty. If I get a tombstone I want it to read something like this one.

I wouldn't really care what they did to my body. Even if it was something such as turning me into blood and bone and throwing me acrosss the garden for fertilizer.

Actually..what an idea....turning me into blood to fertilise a heap of rose plants ;P

But i dont know what i would want written on my tomb.

Something like:
"I was runnin' from the Po-Lice with a can of coke in my hands sayin' "Damn, i hope it dont spill."."

[Edited on 1-11-2003 by DaRAGE]

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Here he lies
After so many tries
Only to learn its just a buncha lies.
Beware the flies
for they love the eyes
Only in heaven can you hear him cry.
Hopefully this is the time I actually die.

i don't want a tombstone i want my body to be hung on a stake as of right now

That's too bad mr Banjoe.

As for me: In very fine print.

Did you know that you are probably standing on me if you are reading this?

Seriously that's what I want.

I want to be entombed and dumped in the ocean.

i want in small writing so people have to stand on top of the grave and look closely

GET OFF MY BALLS

or

HERE LIES............................................

Me

or lyrics from my favorite song

shoots and ladders

Originally posted by ADVISOR
This would actually qualify as chitchat...

Yeah, I'd have to agree...Because if you're talking about your tombstone epitath, you're already *beyond* medicine...


Being honest though, I don't even care if I have a tombstone or not...After all, once I get this far, I won't care what's happened to my body. I've told my family that, as far as I'm concerned, they could just wrap me in aluminum foil & flush me down the toilet because, once I've shuffled off this mortal coil, I won't care about the mortal coil...

However, I like the epitaths mentioned so far that've been going with the theme of "Get off my chest" & such...

most everyone agrees...a toom stone is the last vanity

if one was placed in the paulpers' field, it might display:

Z Z Z Z Z Z....zzzzzz.....Z Z Z Z Z Z

then the code crackers could surmize the 6each 'Z' & 'z' have a cryptic & occult meaning...'rubbings' of the stone could be marketed, lasar & kirlian imaging might be employed, books written, black market DVDs pirated thruout the Baltics & Balkins & Bosphorus....a web community would spring up, like electric mushrooms...urban folklore would infuse 'coZmic 'meaning to the strange markings...etc etc

the artifact, the icon, the relic , lives in its own right...
any bone fragments or 'dust' have long since disappeared, or were never interred there--> the bio-mass was recycled long ago...only the hedonistic altar remains...

Enjoy the journey

Mine should be like "Here lies a man who cared about humanity"

This is where my great plan to be famous lies. I would like to be buried out in a fairly untouched area of the world with a crude tombstone reading something about religious power in an ancient language. Then when I'm found it'll be all over the news.

'Ancient man found preserved'

'Pre-historic Pope: Fact or fiction?'

I would get my very own ATS thread!

I rather be buried in the earth no box, no nothing. But if I must have a tombstone.


just put

WTF!

Either:

"Remembered"

or my favorite.....

"Came, saw, kicked azz, departed."



regards
seekerof

This is by Edgar Allen Poe, entitled "To _________"



"I heed not that my earthly lot
Hath-little earth in it-
Thay years of love have been forgot
In the hatred of a minute: -
I mourn not that the desolate
Are happier, sweet, than I,
But that you sorrow for my fate
Who am a passer by."

It's a little long, so I may have to do some trimming....
I've also liked the idea of having in really tiny lettering

"Ow, get off"

Or having something bold...
Gosh, it's hot down here

I dont want to buried. I dont know any of those people in those cemetaries! I want to be launched into space and hopefully an alien life form will find me and bring me back to life LOL

Something witty like Ben Franklin's:

The body of
Benjamin Franklin, Printer
Like the cover of an old book,
Its contents torn out,
And stripped of its lettering and gilding
Lies here, food for the worms;
Yet the work itself shall not be lost,
For it will be (as he believed) appear once more,
In a new,
And more beautiful edition,
Corrected and amended
By the Author