What would your headstone say about you?

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I watched a program on television sometime ago and they talked about people whose headstone read like a mini novel!

Recently I saw on the news where some headstones of the future will be a video or ‘live’ picture. Wasn’t there a movie like that starring Robin Williams? And if I remember right in the movie Serenity, the people who died had something like that on their headstones. I thought that was just so cool!

What would you want your headstone to say about you other than the required, “good father, or good son, or mother, wife, etc.? Have you ever thought about it really? I know it’s a morbid thought. But what would others say about you?

I guess if that was possible, there would be headstones with “He was a great lover” or “She was one great cook” or “He was a great teacher” on it! Perhaps with even more information than some of us want to know! You know how some people are, big egos!

I don’t know what I would like mine to say. I’ve thought about it but haven’t come up with anything yet. But it would be nice if it was catchy and quite fitting!
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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top
I want to be an interesting page in a geneology scrapbook in the home of my great-great-great-you get the picture-grandchild. That's all. I don't want any other physical remains like a headstone. Although I don't know what I'd want the page to say about me. Maybe just that I did the best I could and that overall it was pretty good.

These are great topics foreverserentity! Thanks for the opportunity for introspection this morning.
Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top
I want to be an interesting page in a geneology scrapbook in the home of my great-great-great-you get the picture-grandchild


Ya know zeen3 I like that idea a lot! Can you imagine when we are gone from this physical world, our great grand child would be able to have one of those technological thingys (whatever they would be call by then!) and be able to see us and hear our voice, perhaps giving out some great advice to live by! I think that would be fantastic! And yes, the geneology would live on!


These are great topics foreverserentity! Thanks for the opportunity for introspection this morning.


Thx!
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Reply #3 from JoeUser Forums Top

Father

Husband

Friend

Reply #4 from JoeUser Forums Top
I don't actually believe I'll ever have a headstone. I feel we are coming very near to the end-time, and that I will not die naturally like those before me, but will transfigure in an instant.

But if I do pass on prior to the end, I dont even want a headstone. Simply let the people who knew me remember me in their own ways, and when they pass on, let me fade away in time and space. After all, I'm just a single person, and not really all that much of one at that. I'd rather not be remembered if I had my choice.
Reply #5 from JoeUser Forums Top
FatherHusbandFriend


SImple and nice!


"I told you I was sick!"


! I like that! Can you imagine how shocked some people would be to see that!


I'd rather not be remembered if I had my choice


That would be a sad thing don't you think? Regardless fo whatever your life was like, to at least have one person remember you, wouldn't that be nice?
Reply #6 from JoeUser Forums Top
That would be a sad thing don't you think? Regardless fo whatever your life was like, to at least have one person remember you, wouldn't that be nice?


Nah.
Reply #7 from JoeUser Forums Top
"I see Paris, I see France,
Unfortunately for me,
I'm stuck under plants."



I don't know what I'd really want...something with a bit of humor to it. Cemetaries are just so depressing so I'd like to spice it up...

~Zoo
Reply #8 from JoeUser Forums Top
I don't want to be buried, but if I had no choice I'd want something excessively pretentious in Latin, just so people will walk past and go, "I bet that guy was a self-indulgent prick."

Reply #9 from JoeUser Forums Top
I don't want to be buried, I want to be cremated. But I suppose, hypothetically, if I were to have a tombstone, I would like it to say 'In death, as in life, all he wants is to hear the music.'
Reply #10 from JoeUser Forums Top
"I see Paris, I see France,Unfortunately for me,I'm stuck under plants."


That's cute Shaun!


if I had no choice I'd want something excessively pretentious in Latin, just so people will walk past and go, "I bet that guy was a self-indulgent prick."


!


if I were to have a tombstone, I would like it to say 'In death, as in life, all he wants is to hear the music.'


That's very nice and very fitting!
Reply #11 from JoeUser Forums Top
I don't want to be buried, I want to be cremated.


Me too, 'cause I wanna be a real smart ash.
Reply #12 from JoeUser Forums Top
I don't want to be buried, I want to be cremated.


Me too, 'cause I wanna be a real smart ash.


That you are Joe, a real smart ass!  Cause you're so smart of course!  
Reply #13 from JoeUser Forums Top


"He tried to be good but there were so many women!"
Reply #14 from JoeUser Forums Top
That you are Joe, a real smart ass!


that's smart ASH Donna! But I ain't dead yet!   
Reply #15 from JoeUser Forums Top
Mine would simply say "Who?"
Reply #16 from JoeUser Forums Top
"He tried to be good but there were so many women!"


Mine would simply say "Who?"


! Sure to get a laugh!



that's smart ASH Donna! But I ain't dead yet!


No you're not Joe! Yes, ASH I saw that! : ) I was trying to be cute! [failing miserably!]!
Reply #17 from JoeUser Forums Top
I have no idea what mine would say - unless I had it read "My other gravestone is wittier."

My ex-wife suffers (so far as I know she still suffers) from horrendously cold feet through poor circulation. In Britain there are things called 'hotwater bottles' (I have no idea what they're called here) - oblong rubbery bladders to be filled with hot water and taken to bed at night, or more usually placed in the bed some time before retiring, to warm the sheets. For almost every night of the twelve winters we were married I made her a hotwater bottle. Hers had a case, a fluffy bunnyhead and ears at the top and floppy bunnyfeet at the bottom.

The phrase she invariably used to get me to go make her one became a family in-joke. Being a humorous woman she once said she would have it carved on her headstone: "My feet are cold. Can I have a hotwater bottle?"
Reply #18 from JoeUser Forums Top
"My other gravestone is wittier."


"My feet are cold. Can I have a hotwater bottle?"


Haha...funny!LOL!


In Britain there are things called 'hotwater bottles' (I have no idea what they're called here) - oblong rubbery bladders to be filled with hot water and taken to bed at night, or more usually placed in the bed some time before retiring, to warm the sheets.


Yep, the same thing in the US, hotwater bottle.
Reply #19 from JoeUser Forums Top
too, 'cause I wanna be a real smart ash.


LOL

"I see Paris, I see France,
Unfortunately for me,
I'm stuck under plants."


LOL


~L
Reply #20 from JoeUser Forums Top
Well, like many who have already replied, I don't want to be buried.

What I would like...(yes, 'like,' I doubt much fuss would be made over the funeral stuff. They'd all be like to just say "eh, lets just toss him in a shoe box," but I digress.)

...would be to be cremeated. And...either...

1) Sent to space, as one of my dreams when I was younger was to head into astronomy, astrophysics, or be an astronaut. I soon realized that i would never be able to do that. Still, the stars, planets, quasars, etc... are a big thing for me.

2) Spread either: In the ocean, in London (any spot really), or Egypt.


3) Be used as a prop in a movie. (What...? You can't have too many urns. )

~OR~

4) Spread into the ocean.

Reply #21 from JoeUser Forums Top


As for what would be on my head stone...


"Born. Lived. Died."

"There have been few men in history who have done great things. Here lies one who wasn't one of them, but at least he tried his best, and lived a decent life."

"Who's grave is this anyway?"

"Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last, final awakening.~Unknown"

"Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark." --Thomas Hobbes

"Ich bin eine berliner auch." (I am a berliner too, not quite correct grammatically - referencing Kennedy's gaff)

"Here lies a son, father, friend, brother, man."

"Guess the flavor."

"Worm free."

"He died, D'oh!"

"'Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.' --Thomas Hobbes"

"He wants his mojo back"

"This dude owes me money"

"I am human"

"And then....?"

"Ich bin tot!" (I am dead!)

"Das ende." (The end)

"Finally, undesturbed rest."

"I knew I shouldn't have done that."

"He never saw it coming..."

“Which way is it to Japan again?”

“Haha, very funny guys. Now let me out.”

“And they said it wouldn’t hurt me.”

"You can't see me, neener neener neener."

"Lets play hide and seek, i'll hide first."
Reply #22 from JoeUser Forums Top
(cont...)

"A train left chicago at 40 mph, while a train left los angeles at 50 mph......"

"They said harmless fun!"

"Sir, the peasants are revolting!"

"In the end, it was the ravenous gnomes that got him."

"This is what happens to you if you poke a troll while invisible."

"I didn't realize what they meant by 'dead end job.'"

"Please leave a message after the silence...."

"Betcha I can last longer than David Blaine."



~L
Reply #23 from JoeUser Forums Top
Here lies an Atheist
All dressed up
And no place to go.
Reply #24 from JoeUser Forums Top
He lived a healthy life, and here he lies.
Reply #25 from JoeUser Forums Top
“Which way is it to Japan again?”“Haha, very funny guys. Now let me out.”“And they said it wouldn’t hurt me.”"You can't see me, neener neener neener.""Lets play hide and seek, i'll hide first."


I like these...

and

these!!

I didn't realize what they meant by 'dead end job.'""Please leave a message after the silence....""Betcha I can last longer than David Blaine."


That will be one heck of a big headstone Lucas!



Here lies an Atheist All dressed up And no place to go.


Cute Bob!


He lived a healthy life, and here he lies.


Very ironic Doc!!