BS: Your headstone

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: Miken
Date: 24 Jan 03 - 01:03 AM

Apologies to Flann O'Brian

"I dedicate these years
to my Guardian Angel,
impressing upon him
that I'm only fooling
and warning him
to see to it that
there is no misunderstanding
when I go home"

Mike

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: GUEST
Date: 24 Jan 03 - 12:59 AM

water you lookin at?

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: Deckman
Date: 23 Jan 03 - 10:37 PM

For the last 15 years, my daughter Ingrid has declared that this is what she will put on my tombstone: "Dad went through life an hour early!" (what can I say! CHEERS, Bob

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: Art Thieme
Date: 23 Jan 03 - 09:57 PM

Got the idea from the fact that we had to bury my old uncle with his head stickin' out of the ground because the hammer broke before we got him all the way in.

Art Thieme

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: Art Thieme
Date: 23 Jan 03 - 08:57 PM

I think Yorick in Hamlet had the right idea. I want my headstone to be just that, my own head !!! Nothing more and nothing less. And you all can come by and say, "Yes, I knew him well, Katlaughing. A man of infinite jest."

Art Thieme

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: Gareth
Date: 23 Jan 03 - 08:56 PM

Seaweed and Coral !

Gareth

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: Jeep man
Date: 23 Jan 03 - 07:51 PM

I still like the old chestnut,"He done his damndest". Jim

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: kytrad (Jean Ritchie)
Date: 23 Jan 03 - 07:43 PM

In a cemetery here on LI where my husbands parents are buried, there are two graves- the husband's says, "Devoted father...etc." The wife's says, "Strove. Struggled. For what?"

Katlaughing, I loved your grandpa Frank Hudson's lines. Here are mine, possibly already in another thread:

Harp on the willow tree, now it is hung.
One man, one faith, one God, to them I clung.
Sweet were the songs of life, now they are sung.
Harp on the willow tree, now it is hung.

Dear little son of mine, child on your knee-
Sing him your songs of life, let him fly free!
Dear little son of mine, child on your knee-
Sing them for you, for him, sing them for me.

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: thehiker
Date: 23 Jan 03 - 07:13 PM

Here Lie The Remains Of John P Murphy
Died In Bed Aged 92
Shot By A Jealous Husband.
Sadly Missed By Both His Widows.

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: Amos
Date: 23 Jan 03 - 10:26 AM

"He Never Got Around to Ordering the Mudcat CDs..."

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: mack/misophist
Date: 22 Jan 03 - 08:52 PM

Even a relatively new graveyard can be a great place for a pick-nick or a stroll (Think of it as a park. Because it is.) But there are just too damn many of us to go on doing this. I'm going to have them recycle what they can , then let the med students use the left-overs to make bad jokes.

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: Ebbie
Date: 22 Jan 03 - 08:39 PM

One more time:

'I'll Be Back Before You Know It'

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: GUEST,Bill
Date: 22 Jan 03 - 07:07 PM

All I want is- DIED AGED 100 CUT DOWN IN HIS PRIME

Bill (the sound)

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: GUEST,Taunus
Date: 22 Jan 03 - 06:51 PM

"Sequel's coming"

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: Ebbie
Date: 22 Jan 03 - 05:45 PM

"Check New Babies- One of them will be me.

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: stevetheORC
Date: 22 Jan 03 - 10:57 AM

'OUT TO TEA'
Please call Later



ORC

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: Cluin
Date: 22 Jan 03 - 10:47 AM

A couple from English headstones:

Beneath this stone, a lump of clay,
Lies Arabella Young,
Who on the twenty-fourth of May,
Began to hold her tongue.

Here lies the body of Martha Elias
Always uneasy and not over pious
She lived to the age of three score and ten
And gave to the worms what she refused to the men.

And a couple from the States:

Under the sod and under the trees
Lies the body of Jonathan Pease.
He is not here, there's only the pod:
Pease shelled out and went to God.

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

A few more here.

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: jimlad
Date: 22 Jan 03 - 10:33 AM

Seen on a grave dating from 1663 in Cheshire...

Stop vain youth as you pass by
As you are now so once was I.

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: Cluin
Date: 22 Jan 03 - 09:51 AM

"I haven't forgotten. I'll get to it..."

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: JennyO
Date: 22 Jan 03 - 09:37 AM

On my grandfather's headstone was:

"To thine own self be true"

I haven't decided what I'd like, but I reckon that one would be hard to beat.

Jenny

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Jan 03 - 09:35 AM

Still thirsty.

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: Snuffy
Date: 22 Jan 03 - 09:30 AM

Allegedly a true one:

Here lies [name supplied]
Spinster of this parish
and for 47 years postmistress

Returned unopened

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: JennyO
Date: 22 Jan 03 - 08:36 AM

Mark Clark - nearly missed scrolling down!

Just when I was thinking "that's rather nice".

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: Mark Clark
Date: 22 Jan 03 - 01:22 AM

I think my favorite headstone is that of John Laird McCaffery in Montreal's Cimetière Notre-Dame-des-Neiges.

      - Mark

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: Ebbie
Date: 21 Jan 03 - 09:40 PM

Be Right Back

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: Neighmond
Date: 21 Jan 03 - 09:33 PM

Another one:

Charles our watches kept in motion
for countless years with great devotion
thy balance or thy mainspring's broke
and all thy movements cease to work.

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: Neighmond
Date: 21 Jan 03 - 09:30 PM

my name
vital dates
wishes to announce that he has a fine house and grounds, for rent, at modest cost. Inquiries may be diricted to (childs' name here).

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: DonMeixner
Date: 20 Jan 03 - 09:59 PM

"I did the best I could with the Time I had."

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: GUEST,Slider
Date: 26 May 00 - 04:33 AM

Could be used for a headstone or a bumper sticker: "An acoustic guitar will get you through times of no electricity better than an electric guitar will get you through times of no air." I thought that one up during that fuzzy interface between dreaming and being awake. My wife thinks I'm daft. I seldom disagree with her.

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: WyoWoman
Date: 25 May 00 - 11:15 PM

I favor:

"See, I TOLD you I was sick."

or

"This terminal logged off..."

(Why, when I finally find a few minutes to stop by Mudcat and see what's happening, do I end up posting to a thread about freakin' HEADSTONES????? But ... here I am. Briefly. Maybe that would be a good epitaph...)

(Actually, I think I'll steal one from Monica Lewinski, Patron Saint of the Imprecise:

"So, I'm, like, whatEVer ...."

WyoWoman

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: katlaughing
Date: 25 May 00 - 11:07 AM

Crazy Eddie, well, ya still made me smile! Sorry about that...Fast Eddie or whatever we named him, has been off from work for a short spell and I just got so excited when I saw "Eddie", and, oh, hell, I didn't care if you were fast, slow, OR crazy...you were an Eddie and that's good enough for me! Thanks for showing me the error of my ways. **BG**

katlaughngatherself

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: GUEST,Al T.
Date: 25 May 00 - 08:18 AM

Bartlett's credits the following as an epitaph written 1896 by Mark Twain for his daughter. I've seen it in Green-Wood in Brooklyn, and it may be older; but still beautiful:

Warm summer sun, shine kindly here; Warm southern wind, blow softly here; Green sod above, lie light, lie light - Good-night, dear heart, good-night, good-night.

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: GUEST,Crazy Eddie
Date: 25 May 00 - 02:07 AM

Katlaughing, I think you've got me mixed up with someone else. I'm Crazy Eddie, not Fast Eddie...........I've never hustled pool, and I'm always s-l-o-w. But I hope your elusive buddy turns up. You can't have too many Eddies! :o)

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: poet
Date: 24 May 00 - 08:47 PM

Dont change the name Julie F. it suits your postings.

Graham (Guernsey)

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: katlaughing
Date: 24 May 00 - 09:00 AM

Not quite, Shambs. DId you all see that?! I missed it until checking this thread, today. FAST EDDIE posted!! My elusive friend wrote about the worms!!! C'mon, Eddie, jump in some more....now we know you're out there!**BG** Hope you're feeling okay!

katlaughing

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: The Shambles
Date: 24 May 00 - 05:16 AM

THE END...............?

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: wysiwyg
Date: 23 May 00 - 04:40 PM

kendall,

I dunno, it's a blank to me.

(I was just blitz-refreshing to sink yesterday's duplicate Willies. I can only handle so many of them at once, after all.)

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: JulieF
Date: 23 May 00 - 04:39 PM

What Can I say - if you're really bothered I'ld change the name I post under to make it easier for you.

Julie

Ps - I keep comming up as Guest at work anyway because I forget to label myself.

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: poet
Date: 23 May 00 - 04:35 PM

Like I said i feel guilty about something and If I see the Sobriquet Julie F my concience adds the ELIX.
Vso alas there is no atonement yet.

Graham (Guernsey)

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: GUEST
Date: 23 May 00 - 12:24 PM

Poet - I'm sorry I can't offer you absolution. I'm a decidedly not famous, Scottish lass ( well 36) living in Sheffield (UK). Sorry. Why do you think I'm someone else ?

Julie

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: katlaughing
Date: 23 May 00 - 10:54 AM

Written by my grandfather, Frank Hudson, an old cowboy-rancher in Colorado:

Death is the other end of being born
Life is a gift, you get it free.
Some people are granted the use of it
for a much longer time than others.
But there is not much point in complaining about that.
To me, it seems better to make use of it while you have it.

And, he did

© G. L. Hudson Family

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: Escamillo
Date: 23 May 00 - 06:05 AM

"Please don't cut this tree at my side. I'm feeding it."

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: Melani
Date: 23 May 00 - 02:27 AM

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: Peter Kasin
Date: 23 May 00 - 02:03 AM

I was the world's most modest person.

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: GUEST,art
Date: 22 May 00 - 06:43 PM

owen moore has gone away

owing more than he could pay

owen moore'll back one day

owing more

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: Max
Date: 22 May 00 - 06:37 PM

www.mudcat.org

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: keltcgrasshoppper
Date: 22 May 00 - 06:26 PM

"I will go back now and build my little shanty by the sea" from my favorite poem.. by Edna StVincent Milay

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: kendall
Date: 22 May 00 - 02:59 PM

cat got your tongue?

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: wysiwyg
Date: 22 May 00 - 02:38 PM

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: GUEST,Second Banana
Date: 21 May 00 - 07:09 PM

When days are few and I am due> To sleep no more to wake.> When games are done and I have won> I've one request to make.> A banal word is often heard> And cant I can't abide> Please do not say I've passed away> Just say that I have died..>

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: kendall
Date: 21 May 00 - 06:00 PM

Thanks Kim C. My ears are empty without Gus

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: zonahobo
Date: 21 May 00 - 01:37 AM

Ok I'll bite .. how about

I KNOW SOMETHING YOU DON'T KNOW

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: GUEST,Crazy Eddie
Date: 21 May 00 - 01:07 AM

"The worms crawl out, the worms crawl in, And those that crawl in are slim & thin; And those that crawl out are fat & stout, Be merry my friends, be merry."

Or to be less morbid: "When you gotta go, you gotta go"

Eddie :o)

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 20 May 00 - 05:13 PM

My Beautiful Wife has instructions on what to put on mine (if I get there first):

"A Gentleman and a Scholar......and a Lover.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: mactheturk
Date: 20 May 00 - 02:04 PM

"Friends may come, and friends may go, and friends may peter out.

But I was your friend, through thick and thin, peter in or peter out."

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: thosp
Date: 20 May 00 - 01:40 PM

"It was NOT my idea to be here"

peace (Y) thosp

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: mactheturk
Date: 20 May 00 - 09:28 AM

"When you are dead,` seek for your resting place` not in the earth,` but in the hearts of men."

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: Spider Tom
Date: 20 May 00 - 12:51 AM

You have given it some thought too Ceitagh.
It's good to meet a thinking mind, so many others laugh nervous in the face of Death.
Keep Well,
Spider Tom

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: Amergin
Date: 19 May 00 - 10:52 PM

Wasn't that a party?

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: ceitagh
Date: 19 May 00 - 10:13 PM

I don't think I'll be sorry to say goodbye
Unless the world is different when I die
And when I go, on my face will be a smile
Knowing I have walked the final mile
And if I have seized the hours of each day,
And if I know know that I have lived the way,
Then No Regrets! for God will be with me
and we will wait for you in Eternity.

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: Petr
Date: 19 May 00 - 09:09 PM

Seen on an old cowboys headstone.

Be what you is, cuz if you be what you aint You aint what you is.

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: Petr
Date: 19 May 00 - 09:07 PM

Why Me?

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: The Shambles
Date: 19 May 00 - 09:05 PM

Guest

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: Peter T.
Date: 19 May 00 - 05:30 PM

I think I would like a little story, or some extensive print about the person on every headstone. I spend a lot of time in cemeteries -- they are often the only places in towns where original tree species still thrive, and there is almost nothing to read on these headstones. Sometimes that is interesting -- you get to conjecture about people by comparing dates, and generations, but I would like some more extensive information about almost everyone. It would be nice: sit by the headstone, and read about the person and their lives, what they thought, whatever. I usually want less information: but in graveyards, I always want more.
yours, Peter T.

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: Pinetop Slim
Date: 19 May 00 - 05:17 PM

My sister's ashes were scattered where Narragansett Bay meets Block Island Sound, but a granite bench in her memory has been placed in the family cemetery. It's a pretty place. Children play there sometimes. At one family reunion, a bunch of cousins ended up serenading the departed with a jam session there.
I'd like my name on a bird bath next to that bench. Should the birds poop all over my grave, it would feel as if I were still alive, but I'll take that risk.

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: GUEST,Bill D
Date: 19 May 00 - 05:13 PM

WC Fields said.."I'd RATHER be in Philadelphia"...

one of my favotite headstones..

"Owen Moore has gone away
Owin' more than he could pay"

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: MMario
Date: 19 May 00 - 05:06 PM

you can already buy them if you want to pay enough....been around for years.

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: GUEST,Chris Banshee
Date: 19 May 00 - 04:56 PM

By the time I'm dead and buried,(I hope) there will probably be digital headstones where one pushes a button on the stone and a prerecorded message of you saying "hey" with your favorite music, maybe a favorite quotation and a montage of pictures of your life will be displayed. And maybe your own personal motto: Music: Maid of Culmore or If I were a Blackbird or Queen of Argyle Personal motto for headstone: "I took the path less traveled by."

I'll be cremated like my parents and I'd like a portion of my remains scattered at the high water mark at Gettysburg, Pa just like I did with a portion of my father's remains.

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: BlueJay
Date: 19 May 00 - 04:07 PM

I can't decide: it's either being laid down in "Forest Lawn", or letting my ashes be blown over the left field wall at Wrigley field, to come to my final resting place, "on Waitland avenue". Really, I think I prefer my headstone to read: "I always wanted to go to sea", tie it to my feet, and throw me in the Atlantic. BlueJay

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: Grandma Marshall
Date: 19 May 00 - 04:00 PM

I told you I was sick and tired!

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: GUEST,Ickle Dorritt
Date: 19 May 00 - 03:52 PM

'Don't think this is going to stop me!'

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: GUEST,Mrr
Date: 19 May 00 - 02:59 PM

I just LOVE Dorothy Parker, thanks!

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: GUEST,Pete Peterson (at work)
Date: 19 May 00 - 02:49 PM

whoops (or maybe a blank tombstone would not be such a bad idea) anyway-- Fields' tombstone has name and dates only. Some literary (?) magazine wrote a number of celebrities in about 1930 asking what they wanted. . . you know Fields' response, the other memorable one was Dorothy Parker who wanted "excuse my dust". As for myself, for some years now I have said it would read "Missed Final Jeopardy"

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: GUEST,Pete Peterson (at work)
Date: 19 May 00 - 02:46 PM

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: poet
Date: 19 May 00 - 02:28 PM

Warning:- Thread Creep.

If Guest JulieF was a famous American Folk singer who played the Guernsey Folk club about 10yrs ago to a packed house. then I must say that through a comedy of unfunny errors I owe you a deep and grovelling apology. I hope it is you I've been carrying this around for a long time.

Graham (Guernsey)

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: GUEST,Mrr
Date: 19 May 00 - 01:37 PM

Mbo, thanks - I figured you'd know, somehow! And is that what his tombstone says, or just one of his bons mots from while still alive?

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: Mbo
Date: 19 May 00 - 12:51 PM

Mrrz, it was W.C. Fields.

--Mbo

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: GUEST,Mrr
Date: 19 May 00 - 12:46 PM

Who was it who wanted "I'd rather be here than in Philadelphia!"? And did he get it?
I like touristing in graveyards, there is a really pretty one near Gordonsville, Virginia, which has a very fancy stone saying MOUNTAIN MAN - Born on the Blue Ridge (and a year), died (still blank the last time I looked). I like that one, but the idea of reserving it and having it carved, and placed, years before you die is a little strange to me.

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: Mini Me
Date: 19 May 00 - 12:32 PM

" Your name here "

" Going , Going , Gone........ "

" I think it's in the Key of D "

" If you are reading this, then you're standing on my chest "

" Born 1361 , Died 2527 "

" If life keeps passing you bye, call Dial a Date ! "

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: annamill
Date: 19 May 00 - 12:22 PM

I'm not going to be buried, but I would like to be remembered for trying, always, to enjoy this so short life...and I would like to be scattered in my river.

Love, annap

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: SINSULL
Date: 19 May 00 - 12:09 PM

I am to be cremated and my ashes scattered on the walkways in my garden after the first snowfall. So I guess my tombstone will be one of those folding yellow signs saying "Caution".

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: Bert
Date: 19 May 00 - 10:38 AM

I don't CARE what you put on my headstone 'cos "I'M" going to be reincarnated as Moonbaby's Gibson B25.

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: TerriM
Date: 19 May 00 - 10:10 AM

I don't plan on having a headstone but I would like Jake Thackeray's Last Will and Testament played at my wake.

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: Kim C
Date: 19 May 00 - 09:40 AM

First, I am sorry that the Guest identified only as Guest feels that way. I don't know what else to say about that.

Second, I vote for cremation as I don't care for my useless remains to be taking up premium space at the expense of my family. But if I were going to have a headstone, it would say one of two things: either "We don't rent pigs" or "I can whack that bell if I want to."

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: Little Neophyte
Date: 19 May 00 - 09:07 AM

Well, I think I would want my stone to be carved like that yellow happy face that was so popular in the 70s.
You know, the one with two dots for eyes and a big smile.
That is what I would want
I guess they could carve the dots and big smile and then paint them in black. Maybe I could even get my stone painted yellow.
Yep, that is exactly what I would want.
And you could press a button on my stone and a recording would play the tune............
Puff The Magic Dragon

Little Neo

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: Amos
Date: 19 May 00 - 08:50 AM

I was going to put this on the "Just Do It" thread but on reflection it would make a great, if quirky, message for a deceased thespian:

``I challenge any mainstream actor or actress to take off their
clothes and have sex in front of people and tell me that's not
acting.''

STACEY VALENTINE, who was chosen best American
actress at the porn industry's film festival in Cannes, France.

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: Spider Tom
Date: 19 May 00 - 08:35 AM

What would any man have on their headstone?
As you are dear at the time it is NOT your headstone.
BUT perhaps when living, at least the words could be picked to be later chiseled in the stone, so after some thought, I write my own inscription.
No matter if it's never carved, I'll be dead and past careing.
Spider Tom.

I dreamed,
To cheat my Death,
But Death,
It holds the winning hand.
I never tried,
To cheat at Life,
Yet Life,
It turns you back to sand,
I clutched the straws,
I sung each breath,
I lived my life,
And nothing less.

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 19 May 00 - 07:54 AM

There are two markers in a small graveyard in York, Maine, both for women and obviously by the same carver, though separated by a few years. They both say the same thing:

"Lived desired and died lamented."

If that ism't something to aspire to, I don't know what is!

Linn, both Bat Goddess and Thanatolithologist

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: GUEST,JulieF
Date: 19 May 00 - 07:29 AM

I fancy one of these places where they bury you under a mound in a type of wicker basket and all they do is plant a tree to live on the enriched soil. There are definately some of these about.

Otherwise i'ld settle for :-

"She tried her best"

Julie

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: MudGuard
Date: 19 May 00 - 07:06 AM

Just my name, and underneath:
1966-2483
(though I have not yet decided on the exact second number, might be 2617 as well)
MudGuard

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: Mooh
Date: 19 May 00 - 07:01 AM

I didn't expect this kind of response! LOL! Mooh.

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler
Date: 19 May 00 - 05:39 AM

Not going to have one but it could bear by "masthead":" a face made for radio, a voice made for mime"!
RtS (as they scatter my ashes they could sing "Blowin' in the wind " I suppose!!)

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: GUEST
Date: 19 May 00 - 01:47 AM

Poorly lived.
Poorly died.
Poorly buried.
No one cried.

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: Racer
Date: 19 May 00 - 01:47 AM

I want to be preserved, stuffed, and set at the dinner table with a big shit-eating grin on my face. I want them to put a knife in one hand and a fork in the other.

Needless to say, I`m very tired of people telling me that I need to eat more.

-Racer

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: GUEST,Blackjack velvet
Date: 19 May 00 - 01:34 AM

"Oops" Write on my tombstone oops I'm dead.

I used to think I wanted to be creamated but no, I'm too selfish.

A tomb for me is a private place. No shoes or socks an apartment with a big stone mailbox for people to stop by on cloudy days in July after rains, a fresh breeze

and laugh because I'm dead. And it seems so ridiculous.

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: katlaughing
Date: 19 May 00 - 01:17 AM

Here lies Kat...Laughing....**BG**

Naw, really haven't thought of it as I will be cremated and will haunt anyone who is sad when I go, as my dad has promised to do when he goes, as go he will...

Kendall...I like both of what you posted

Spaw's will say "gone to that great Neil Young Center For The Terminally Screwed in the sky!" OR just, "Terminally Screwed!" **BG**

luvya!kat

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: Peter Kasin
Date: 19 May 00 - 12:41 AM

"I'm not only the president of the funeral club for men...I'm also a client."

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: Bugsy
Date: 19 May 00 - 12:30 AM

"But, wasn't it a great life."

cheers

Bugsy

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: Bill D
Date: 19 May 00 - 12:12 AM

well, I DON'T want a headstone marking a 'place'..but if there is a memorial marker anywhere, let it say:

"ENTROPY WILL GET YOU IF YOU DONT WATCH OUT...in fact, entropy will get you even if you DO watch out"

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: campfire
Date: 19 May 00 - 12:06 AM

What was on the blues-player's tombstone?

I didn't wake up this morning.....

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: SDShad
Date: 18 May 00 - 10:32 PM

*thread creep alert*

Okay, 'Spaw. Ask and ye shall receive. My father and I discussed that particular question on the way home from his sister's funeral last week. Y'see, I'm a firm believer in the whole ashes-to-ashes, dust-to-dust sort of thing. No particular reason, just an instinctive sort of impulse. Just seems more appropriate in the long haul than having my pickle-preserved remains preserved in a concrete vault til long after anything that was really me is long gone. But apparently there's all kinds of places these days where they don't allow you to be planted unembalmed in a pine box so that you can just rot and get eaten by the worms.

So I guess the only worm-digestion option open these days is cremation, which wouldn't be my first choice, but then I could have a bit scattered in the Missouri River in South Dakota, the Zumbro and Mississippi Rivers in Minnesota, and maybe have the rest buried somewhere.

'Course, I come from Wesleyan stock, where it's pretty high-falutin' to have anything more than name, birth and death on a stone, so I haven't thought about "what do you want on your tombstone" much yet. But hey, my family still owns some plots in a little churchyard cemetary near the Zumbro, so I could even have one of those stones with "1963-____" waitin' for me when my number's up.

That the sort of thing you were lookin' for?

Shad

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: Dave (the ancient mariner)
Date: 18 May 00 - 10:19 PM

Mine would sink mates, no point making one up. Besides you might drown digging a hole to put me in... Aye. Dave

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: GUEST
Date: 18 May 00 - 10:14 PM

Old English inscription:

Behold, you see me as you pass by,
As you are now, so once was I,
As I am now, so you will be,
Prepare for death and follow me.

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: Jeremiah McCaw
Date: 18 May 00 - 09:39 PM

Howzabout:

"At last! I've foiled my enemies, the paranoids!"

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: Sorcha
Date: 18 May 00 - 07:24 PM

My friend Judith wants NO VISITORS. I also like A PAUSE FOR THE CAUSE.

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: thosp
Date: 18 May 00 - 06:42 PM

"my head is NOT stone!

peace (Y) thosp

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: Hardiman the Fiddler
Date: 18 May 00 - 06:35 PM

Since it will probably be one of my children who actually select what's on my headstone, it will probably read,"We prayed for his death on a nightly basis."

Hardiman

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: Jim the Bart
Date: 18 May 00 - 06:32 PM

Back in ten minutes. . .

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: Amergin
Date: 18 May 00 - 06:17 PM

Don't Laugh. It'll happen to you.

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: kendall
Date: 18 May 00 - 06:15 PM

Oh hell, you may as well know the rest of it. At my memorial service, I have asked the kids to get someone to recite the last few lines of Thannatopsis, by Willian Cullen Bryant.
..So live that when your summons comes to join that innumerable caravan which moves to that mysterious realm, Where each shall take his place in the silent halls of death..
Thou go, not like the quarry slave at night, scourged to his dungeon
But sustained by an unfaltering trust,
Approach thy grave like one who wraps the covers of his couch about him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: mactheturk
Date: 18 May 00 - 06:12 PM

....I TOLD YOU I WAS SICK...

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: GUEST,bigJ
Date: 18 May 00 - 06:00 PM

I've always rather fancied Robert Burns' epitaph 'On a Friend'.

An honest man here lies at rest,
As e'er God with His image blest!
The friend of man, the friend of truth;
The friend of age, and guide of youth;
Few hearts like his, with virtue warm'd,
Few heads with knowledge so inform'd;
If there's another world, he lives in bliss,
If there is none, he made the best of this.

I hope I live to merit an epitaph like that (if you see what I mean).

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: Terry Allan Hall
Date: 18 May 00 - 05:42 PM

"I knew I shoulda took that left turn in Albequerque..."

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: Mbo
Date: 18 May 00 - 05:39 PM

Beren.

--Mbo

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: sophocleese
Date: 18 May 00 - 05:22 PM

Children: please play.

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: Clinton Hammond2
Date: 18 May 00 - 05:05 PM

In kinda fine print...

Yer standing on my nuts...

LOL!!!!

{~`

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: kendall
Date: 18 May 00 - 04:54 PM

Mine is going to say: I KNEW IF I LIVED LONG ENOUGH SOMETHING LIKE THIS WOULD HAPPEN. And, I'm serious (for a change)

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: catspaw49
Date: 18 May 00 - 04:54 PM

What the hell is this around here? "Threads for the Morbid?" Funeral songs.....headstones..........Hey! I got an idea....Let's talk about whether or not you should go with a watertight vault and a sealed casket or cremation....Perhaps something in between would be right. If you go with the coffin, wood or metal...I mean, wood is so much warmer and all. Interior choice? Colorful...or is beige nice because it goes with everything. Do you need underwear when you're dead? Dress clothes or casual? Shall we put things in the casket or not? If you go cremation, are you better off in the wind, on the garden, or on the mantle? Perhaps a Niche in a mausoleum?

Geeziz.......

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: Allan C.
Date: 18 May 00 - 04:52 PM

"Damn! This never happened before!"

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: Amos
Date: 18 May 00 - 04:49 PM

Return Rentals Here

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: Ebbie
Date: 18 May 00 - 04:45 PM

Do you suppose the head gardener at the cemetery has a headstone saying, Keep Off the Grass?

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: Caitrin
Date: 18 May 00 - 04:36 PM

I've always wanted "Now I'll Really Raise Hell." Or perhaps "Born: yes. Died: yes."

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: MK
Date: 18 May 00 - 04:34 PM

He came.
He saw.
He kicked it's ass.

...and then it kicked his...

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: Sorcha
Date: 18 May 00 - 04:20 PM

Still thinking about mine, maybe "Nobody Home". My parents says "Call When You Get There" (really)

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: The Shambles
Date: 18 May 00 - 04:03 PM

Mine may have stopped but.

Music, the heartbeat of the world goes on.

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: poet
Date: 18 May 00 - 04:02 PM

Here Lies a Bodhran Player
out of time
so where,s the change already.

Graham (Guernsey)

Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone
From: MMario
Date: 18 May 00 - 03:53 PM

"This spot reserved for ... ... ..."

Subject: Your headstone
From: Mooh
Date: 18 May 00 - 03:32 PM

Thanks for this...

What would/will you have inscribed on your headstone? That is, if you want one.

Peace (not RIP yet), Mooh.