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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. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone From: MMario Date: 18 May 00 - 03:53 PM "This spot reserved for ... ... ..." |
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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) |
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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. |
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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) |
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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... |
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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." |
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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? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone From: Amos Date: 18 May 00 - 04:49 PM Return Rentals Here |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone From: Allan C. Date: 18 May 00 - 04:52 PM "Damn! This never happened before!" |
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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 |
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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) |
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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!!!! {~` |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone From: sophocleese Date: 18 May 00 - 05:22 PM Children: please play. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone From: Mbo Date: 18 May 00 - 05:39 PM Beren. --Mbo |
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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..." |
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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, I hope I live to merit an epitaph like that (if you see what I mean). |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone From: mactheturk Date: 18 May 00 - 06:12 PM ....I TOLD YOU I WAS SICK... |
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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. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone From: Amergin Date: 18 May 00 - 06:17 PM Don't Laugh. It'll happen to you. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone From: Jim the Bart Date: 18 May 00 - 06:32 PM Back in ten minutes. . . |
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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 |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone From: thosp Date: 18 May 00 - 06:42 PM "my head is NOT stone! peace (Y) thosp |
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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. |
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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!" |
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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, |
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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 |
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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 |
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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..... |
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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" |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone From: Bugsy Date: 19 May 00 - 12:30 AM "But, wasn't it a great life." cheers Bugsy |
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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." |
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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 |
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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. |
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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 |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone From: GUEST Date: 19 May 00 - 01:47 AM Poorly lived. Poorly died. Poorly buried. No one cried. |
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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!!) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your headstone From: Mooh Date: 19 May 00 - 07:01 AM I didn't expect this kind of response! LOL! Mooh. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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, |
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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
STACEY VALENTINE, who was chosen best American |
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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 |
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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." |
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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. |
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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. |
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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". |
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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 |
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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 ! " |