So what do YOU want written on your gravestone when you R.I.P?

[emad]

"Keep off the grass" - Peter Ustinov

"I told you I wasn't well" - Spike Milligan

"That's All Folks" - Mel Blank.........

[Aristus]

1. "Pardon Me For Not Getting Up"

:-)

[KC]

8. LOL

That's great.

KC

[Aristus]

22. Thanks, KC.

It's not original with me, I must confess.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

2. "This is all your fault!"

or "Stop pissing on me!"

[Ganja Ninja]

3. I don't want a grave or a grave stone.

I want to be cremated and have my ashes spread in a river.

[LynzM]

7. Same here on the cremation bit

Would you want any sort of memorial marker, anywhere special to you? I tend to think it helps those still here a lot to have a spot dedicated to someone's memory, from personal experience. What do you think?

[Ganja Ninja]

9. I my case I'm not planning any for now.

Eventually a grave marker will be forgotten and I don't like the idea of leaving a stone with my name on it taking up space some where.

[kitkatrose]

14. I'm going the cremation route too,

but I want my ashes buried under a newly planted tree. That way I can recycle myself.

[Coyul]

4. Harken now as you walk by,

As you are now, so once was I,
As I am now, you too shall be,
Prepare for death and follow me...

[Badger1]

5. Cast a cold eye,

on life, on death, horsemen pass bye.
William Butler Yeats 1865-1939

[sybylla]

6. If me knew you was coming

me'd a baked a cake (cookie monster)

[Davis_X_Machina]

10. Hmnn..

I saw Bobby Orr skate.
I saw Larry Bird shoot.
I saw Pedro Martinez pitch.

That's not a bad life.

[recidivist]

21. With all due respect ....

That's a pretty sad life if the best you can think to put down is that you were a spectator.

I understand the fan impulse, but may I humbly suggest that you rethink your headstone.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

25. You're obviously not from Boston.

[recidivist]

46. Yeah, you're right. When you're from Boston ...

... watching some games on tv probably IS a peak lifetime experience.:)

[Bertha Venation]

11. At last, she sleeps alone!

from a Rita Mae Brown novel.

[Gemini Cat]

54. I loved that book!

Six of One.
One of the best.

[Bertha Venation]

60. that and "Bingo"

I love the line near the end of Bingo: "Lifelike, isn't she?" Out of context it's meaningless, so: everybody read the book!

[Bertha Venation]

12. Born: Yes. Died: Yes.

Another from RMB.

[hippiechick]

13. "Hippiechick ... she was right the whole time"

LMAO ! :silly:


:hippie:

[Spentastic]

15. It's really hot in here

Or

"FUCK OFF"

[rjbcar27]

16. "Here lies Richard, and he's bloody annoyed!"

:-) Blackadder

[Mr.Green93]

17. told you I was sick

[Dead_Parrot]

18. With appologies to Gaiman & Pratchett...

"The end of the world is nigh:
I'm just leaving early to avoid the rush"

Or maybe just:
"Don't laugh. You're next"

[bearfan454]

19. Cremation for me.

I want the ashes put in the campfire at the deer camp.

[soothsayer]

20. "Buried Alive"

But of course I don't want it to be TRUE...!

[Arugula Latte]

23. "Pardon me, you're stepping on my eyeball"

What was that from? Anyone know? That just popped into my head.

[djeseru]

24. Anonymous

"Poorly lived
Poorly died
Poorly buried
And no one cried."

Personally I'm going the cremation route myself.

[sarahbellum]

26. something royal tenenbaum-esque

i think his read "died saving his family from the wreckage of a sinking battleship." well, i want something on mine about being devoured by the rare and deadly brazilian chomper bug.

[av8rdave]

27. "If I only knew then what I know now"

n/t

av8rdave

[Katha]

28. Mine:

Loved Others and was Loved in Return.

[elperromagico]

29. "This Grave May Contain Peanuts"

[Nay]

30. Here lies an atheist -- all dressed up and noplace to go.

[JVS]

31. Your ad here! 1-800-GRAVE-ADS

[TrogL]

32. This is the way the world ends

This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang, but a whimper. - T.S. Elliot

[LTR]

33. This

[name not needed]

34. Im rick james bitch

[YellowRubberDuckie]

35. "She was a nice girl..."

That's what I want people to remember about me.
Duckie

[bif]

36. "Where's the beer?"

[Az]

37. Have you seen this man? He is supposed to be here.

[LTR]

38. "I can see up your skirt!" (nm)

[Donkeyboy75]

39. "I told you that sauerbraten was old"

[WilliamPitt]

40. Some lyrics

Wheel is turning and you can't slow it down
Can't let go and you can't hang on
Can't go back and you can't stand still
And if the thunder don't get you
Then the lightning will

- Grateful Dead, 'The Wheel'

[VelmaD]

43. Oh, I like that...

personally I don't wanta be buried (mostly 'cause I don't wanta ever die). :) I've always figured I'd donate whatever medical science can lose and have the rest cremated and the ashes scattered up in the Rockies at this sport where I saw a rainbow that made a complete circle in the sky.

I seem to change what I want read at the time every so often. Right now it's "Ode" by Arthur O'Shaughnessy. :)

"We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams..."

[camero]

41. Here lies Charlie

He was a good lay. :)

[Nlighten1]

42. All day I dream about sex.

[warrior1]

45. heard this the other day.

http://www.cartalk.com/content/read-on/2004/03.13.html

Submitted by Richard Cheslock. Online permission courtesy of the The Daily Item.

LEWISBURG - Louis J. Casimir Jr. bought the farm Thursday, Feb. 5, 2004, having lived more than twice as long as he had expected and probably three or four times as long as he deserved.

Although he was born into an impecunious family, in a backward and benighted part of the country at the beginning of the Great Depression, he never in his life suffered any real hardships.

Many of his childhood friends who weren't killed or maimed in various wars became petty criminals, prostitutes, and/or Republicans.

He survived three years overseas in an infantry regiment in excellent health, then university for four years on the GI bill, and never thereafter had to do an honest day's work.

He was loved by good women, had loyal friends, and all his children were healthy, handsome and bright.

For more than six decades, he smoked, drank and ate lots of animal fat, but never had a serious illness or injury.

His last wish was that everyone could be as lucky as he had been, even through his demise was probably iatrogenic.

He was preceded in death by his wife of 43 years, Judy.

He is survived by his brother Jack of Houston, Texas; and his children, Randall Kent of Brunswick, Ga., Louis John III (Trey) of Lewisburg, Thomas Bettis of Lewisburg and Edith Austin Wheat of Austin, Texas.

Lou was a daredevil: his last words were "Watch this!"

[Padraig18]

44. "Wouldn't you like to know?"

:P

[historian]

47. DAMM!!!

They hiked the rent again!

[sweetheart]

48. "Were i buried here, which i am not...

thankfully, as my loved ones have dispersed my ashes to the oceans
and winds of this divine earth, were i buried here, i would ask you.

"How many times did you kiss your dog.... God is a dog."

[bobthedrummer]

49. Bob, the drummer!

[LincolnMcGrath]

50. Will Pitt Never Answered ME!

So I Died Not Knowing!

[WilliamPitt]

53. Wha??

[Triple H]

51. Check out the pic I found...

pay attention to the first letter of each line. :evilgrin:

[Lisa]

52. "I told you I was sick!" (n/t)

...

[Catshrink]

55. Robb is a dingbat.

[Wapsie B]

56. "When I die

and go to heaven, and my world has come to pass, I hope they bury me upside down so..............." (you should know the rest)

[Parrcrow]

57. Insert exact change. One newspaper per customer.

[guitar man]

58. Reincarnation

This is my favorite poem(I am a fan of Cowboy Poetry)

It's called "Reincarnation" By Wally Mcrae




Reincarnation

"What does Reincarnation mean?"
A cowpoke asked his friend.
His pal replied, "It happens when
Yer life has reached its end.
They comb yer hair, and warsh yer neck,
And clean yer fingernails,
And lay you in a padded box
Away from life's travails."

"The box and you goes in a hole,
That's been dug into the ground.
Reincarnation starts in when
Yore planted 'neath a mound.
Them clods melt down, just like yer box,
And you who is inside.
And then yore just beginnin' on
Yer transformation ride."

"In a while, the grass'll grow
Upon yer rendered mound.
Till some day on yer moldered grave
A lonely flower is found.
And say a hoss should wander by
And graze upon this flower
That once wuz you, but now's become
Yer vegetative bower."

"The posy that the hoss done ate
Up, with his other feed,
Makes bone, and fat, and muscle
Essential to the steed,
But some is left that he can't use
And so it passes through,
And finally lays upon the ground
This thing, that once wuz you."

"Then say, by chance, I wanders by
And sees this upon the ground,
And I ponders, and I wonders at,
This object that I found.
I thinks of reincarnation,
Of life and death, and such,
And come away concludin': 'Slim,
You ain't changed, all that much.'"


<I guess I better get a big stone!> :)

[Ellen Forradalom]

59. I will be consigned to the waters of Lake Michigan

hence no gravestone.

[emad]

61. Archaeologists please note: the bullion's in a neighbouring plot

xxx

[Beaker]

62. behold you strangers passing by...

as you are now, so once was i-
as i am now, so you must be...
Prepare for Death, and follow me.

we came across this epitath on the headstone of a certain Annabelle E., in the big cemetery at the south end of the u of i campus in champaign-urbana, while tripping our brains out on a dark & stormy night.

[Pert_UK]

63. Now an ex-Pert.........

:evilgrin:

P.

[Pert_UK]

64. In very small letters, "You're standing on my balls!"

Thank you, Mr Billy Connolly!

P.

[Paradise]

65. Here Lies, But Not As Good As * n/t

[truthspeaker]

66. in serious:

"Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand."
--WB Yeats

Except I probably won't have a tombstone - too expensive. I'll be cremated and my family, if any, can dispose of my remains as they wish.

[Cuban_Liberal]

67. "Do not go gently into that good night..."

:)

[Westegg]

68. "I'll Be Back"