What do you want on your tombstone?

[Gypsy]

Not in a morbid way, but in a funny or sincere way.

I want... She had principles and she tried her best to live by them.

 

[Maisie]

She had rubbish judgement but great kids.

 

[HollyS]

"She meant well."

 

[Circe]

I want Sula's epitaph: no better friend, no worse enemy.

 

[blueiris]

This would be too long but ...

"She had no dreams of being praised above other women, feeling that there was always something better which she might have done, if she had only been better and known better. Her full nature spent itself in deeds which left no great name on the earth, but the effect of her being on those around her was incalculable. For the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts and on all those who live faithfully their hidden lives, and rest in unvisited tombs."

 

[HopeDream]

To quote another famous tombstone

"This wasn't my idea"

 

[partgypsy]

Here lies {so and so} and why not?

I thought that line from Spinal Tap was Hilarious and told Hubby he could put that on my tombstone.

 

[MichelleCarmen]

She kicked ass! (eta - hey, that was auto-sensored!)

 

[Gypsy]

She had rubbish judgement but great kids.

Now that's just silly.

You don't get great kids if you have crap judgement. Sorry, not that I've seen.


Holly, this is wicked but when I saw that all I could think is "The road to hell is paved with good intentions..."

 

[TravelingGal]

"She was full of sh*t and now is fertilizer."

 

[Kaleigh]

It would be one of my sayings...

Piece of cake and a candle....



Oh hell no, is this a joke??


Leave it lay where Jesus Flung it... ( Nanny's not mine ) But that always summed it up for me...

 

[somethingshiny]

X years in this world and all I got was this stupid rock!

 

[Matata]

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[Maisie]

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Hilarous!!!

 

[dragonfly411]

She did what she was sent for. Raised hell and caused chaos.

 

[iLander]

"This graveyard is full of indispensable people. Here is another."

I always loved this one;

"I told you I was sick".

 

[davi_el_mejor]

"Chuck Norris was here"

 

[Steel]

Just my name and birth/death dates. I suppose I think nothing else matters when you are dead . And I want to be cremated and sit on a mantelpiece, somewhere warm, not in the ground.

Carry on.

 

[Lady_Disdain]

There are some really great ones here! I may change my answer (and I hope to have many years in which to do it ), but I would like something along the lines of

"Do not stand here and weep over this stone, but go forth and live your live fully"

 

[soocool]

Out To Lunch

 

[geckodani]

I actually don't want a tombstone or a funeral. Cremate me, throw a party and toss the ashes into the nearest body of salt water. Off the coast of Maui would be preferable, but any ocean would do.

 

[Strawdermangrl]

"Chuck Norris was here"

You, I like.

Mine, I would have to say....

Never really excelled at words with friends.

 

[atroop711]

"She was full of sh*t and now is fertilizer."

lol

 

[Amethyste]

" SAW WITH HER HEART, WHAT HER EYES COULDN'T SEE "

 

[Haven]

I would prefer cremation, but my family violently protests this wish of mine whenever the subject comes up.

SO, if I must have a tombstone I would prefer one of the following:

"Nothing to see here."
or
"Forgive me if I don't shake hands."

 

[MichelleCarmen]

My new ones...

"I like pancakes 'cause they're stackable."

or

"Just lots and lots of beer."

 

[MichelleCarmen]

I actually don't want a tombstone or a funeral. Cremate me, throw a party and toss the ashes into the nearest body of salt water. Off the coast of Maui would be preferable, but any ocean would do.

Are tombstones/funerals even in style this year? A bunch of people I know have died and none had either. Lots of cremations, denial and cherry finish boxes placed on book cases. The only burials have been of my cats.

 

[reader]

I'd like either a green burial and to be fertilizer under a tree. Or, if I'm being really self-centered, turned into some diamonds that friends could wear to interesting places.

I also hope my family honors my wish to be an organ donor. Its a self centered desire...kinda like giving death a brief middle finger.

No headstones, please, those rocks could make much more beautiful and useful things...

 

[geckodani]

MC - I've been to 4 wakes and funerals this year, so at least in my neck of the woods they are still common. I'm just not a fan.

DH says he wants a Viking funeral where they place you on a barge/raft, push it out into the lake and then set it on fire with flaming arrows. I told him I might get arrested but I'd see what I could do.

 

[jaysonsmom]

I'd like either a green burial and to be fertilizer under a tree. Or, if I'm being really self-centered, turned into some diamonds that friends could wear to interesting places.

I also hope my family honors my wish to be an organ donor. Its a self centered desire...kinda like giving death a brief middle finger.

No headstones, please, those rocks could make much more beautiful and useful things...

Yup, I want to be made into a diamond, maybe into 3 so that I can give a little of my self to each of my 2 kids, and also sit on the finger of my husband's next wife