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Thread #76059 Message #1346601
Posted By: Tannywheeler
03-Dec-04 - 02:43 PM
Thread Name: BS: What do you want on your gravestone?
Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone?
I intend to be cremated, after they've taken anything healthy enough to be useful to anyone else. If there's any kind of a memorial that my family puts up it should read:
"Throughout eternity to thee
A joyful song I'll raise;
But, oh -- ETERNITY'S TOO SHORT
To utter all thy praise."
This is the last verse of a poem by Addison (remember paradox in high school Eng. Lit. class?) the whole of which is a hymn in the Episcopal Hymnal(1940 & '82). One of my favorites. Tw