BS: Your headstone

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.