BS: What do you want on your gravestone?

Subject: BS: What do you want on your gravestone?
From: GUEST
Date: 30 Nov 04 - 12:07 PM

When the time comes and death grabs ya buy the short n curlies, what do you want on your gravestone to leave your mark in history?

I'd have

"Gone for lunch"

Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone?
From: Rapparee
Date: 30 Nov 04 - 12:08 PM

Still thirsty.

Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone?
From: Pauline L
Date: 30 Nov 04 - 12:21 PM

Something that Martin Luther King said in one of his last sermons (?): In my life, I have tried to love my fellow man.

Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone?
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 30 Nov 04 - 12:27 PM

"He's Not Here"

Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone?
From: Sorcha
Date: 30 Nov 04 - 12:39 PM

Nobody Home

Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone?
From: Dead Horse
Date: 30 Nov 04 - 12:41 PM

He went peacefully in his sleep,
not screaming like his passengers!

(OK, I stole it, but it fits)

Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone?
From: Mooh
Date: 30 Nov 04 - 12:49 PM

Don't want me or my family to waste our money on a gravestone, a plot, or any other of the trappings of a burial. All I want is a cheap cremation and my ashes spread over one of my favourite places, near both my Dad and my sister. My happiest days were and are spent there, and I hope they always will be.

Don't put no gravestone on my grave. Thanks anyway.

Peace, Mooh.

Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone?
From: Schantieman
Date: 30 Nov 04 - 12:53 PM

I want to be buried in a wood with an oak tree planted on top of me. If anyone wants to put anything on the tree, that's up to them - I won't be around!

Steve

Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 30 Nov 04 - 01:05 PM

No grave or marker for me, thanks. Cremation and scattering.

Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 30 Nov 04 - 01:07 PM

dunno, not really thought about it.
How about="jOhn from Hull-Dead"?

Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone?
From: GUEST,Cod Fiddler
Date: 30 Nov 04 - 01:07 PM

I told you I was Ill! (Spike Milligan)

Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone?
From: Deckman
Date: 30 Nov 04 - 01:16 PM

My daughter has threatned to put the following on my stone: "Dad went through life an hour early". CHEERS, Bob

Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone?
From: alanabit
Date: 30 Nov 04 - 01:18 PM

"Sorry, wrong place mate!" I am going to be cremated.

Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone?
From: GUEST,Bill Kennedy
Date: 30 Nov 04 - 01:22 PM

how about 'No Forwarding Address'

I'm with the rest of the cremated/scattered crowd

Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone?
From: ToulouseCruise
Date: 30 Nov 04 - 01:28 PM

a date sometime in 2090 or so... I think that would make me 122 yrs old... sounds like a record

B

Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone?
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 30 Nov 04 - 01:35 PM

Or...

"This is a waste of space"

Or

"Reserved"

Or

"Yer standing on my nuts"

Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 30 Nov 04 - 01:43 PM

To paraphrase Clinton Hammond's:

"I'm not here."

Anyway, I'm not planning to have a gravestone.

Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone?
From: GUEST,Toenails John
Date: 30 Nov 04 - 01:47 PM

....Fell asleep on (date)
MAN is he gonna be pissed off when he wakes up

Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone?
From: GUEST,Chief Chaos
Date: 30 Nov 04 - 01:50 PM

I don't believe you guys have missed two classics:

"What a Long Strange Trip It's Been"

and

"It's worse than that, I'm dead Jim!"

Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone?
From: Justa Picker
Date: 30 Nov 04 - 01:56 PM

"He gave to worms and maggots what he refused homosexual men all of his life."

Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone?
From: Peace
Date: 30 Nov 04 - 02:01 PM

Body going to a medical school. Don't care what they do with it.

Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone?
From: grumpy al
Date: 30 Nov 04 - 02:34 PM

I want to be buried at sea, with the proviso that my Ex Wife has to dance on my grave.

Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone?
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 30 Nov 04 - 02:37 PM

Here here brucie!

Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone?
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 30 Nov 04 - 02:42 PM

Im going to be cremated and my ashes scattered in woodland. I want people to plant a tree adn have a party, tell a joke, sing a song and play music. Its not a sad time, its a celebration of my life adn life in general and to see me off on the next leg of my journey!

Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone?
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 30 Nov 04 - 02:45 PM

Somebody else's name....
Quack!!
GtD.

Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone?
From: The Walrus
Date: 30 Nov 04 - 03:04 PM

My first thought was

"Not Just aAnother Suburban W*nker"

but a better (and more accepable) version might be:

"Bits of him live on"

(I've got a muliple doner card - eyes, heart, lungs, liver and whatever else they can salvage - Don't just bury me, break me for spares!)

As for the funeral, I'll go for my family standard; a conventional funeral to say 'Goodbye' the a party afterwards to celbrate the life remembered (I've got money set aside for a barrel).

Walrus

Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone?
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 30 Nov 04 - 03:18 PM

My body is going for medical research so there wont be a funeral as such.But there will be a fine party for everyone to enjoy in my local where ever that will be.

Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone?
From: Ebbie
Date: 30 Nov 04 - 03:34 PM

My Work Here is Done
Hi Yo, Silver!

Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone?
From: the fence
Date: 30 Nov 04 - 03:38 PM

"Late again"

Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone?
From: GUEST,John O'Lennaine
Date: 30 Nov 04 - 04:11 PM

When I was a teenager my mother used to say my headstone should read:

"He meant to do it"

If, why I die, (if I haven't already), I have done it I would like "He did it", and if not, "Still working on it Mum"

Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 30 Nov 04 - 04:30 PM

On Bambi's grave: "The Buck Stops Here"

Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone?
From: GUEST,amergin
Date: 30 Nov 04 - 04:39 PM

I'm not going to be buried...I'm going to be stuffed and used as a coat rack.

Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 30 Nov 04 - 04:48 PM

Great idea!

Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone?
From: GUEST,amergin
Date: 30 Nov 04 - 04:52 PM

Maybe they can cut out a portion of my stomache...to be used as a shelving area for all of the william shatner cds...

Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone?
From: Joybell
Date: 30 Nov 04 - 05:12 PM

All you lucky people who got their bookings in early. As I've mentioned before, when we rang them, the medical school here told us "No more donations until after the new year". Still trying to figure out how they know when we're gonna go?

Amergin, A tripe sheving unit. Now you don't see that every day.

If I was to have a gravestone, which I won't (I'll try to hold out until next year) I'd have rather liked:
"Just tell them that you saw me"
From the song of that name. Of course it's not very funny and I do like funny. Maybe the way I sign off at the time of my passing over would be the go. For now it's
                           Cheery-bye, Joy

Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone?
From: skipy
Date: 30 Nov 04 - 05:21 PM

What ever headstone protective coating they have developed in 500 years time!
eh! perhaps not then!
Skipy

Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone?
From: Bobert
Date: 30 Nov 04 - 05:24 PM

Well, danged...

Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone?
From: HuwG
Date: 30 Nov 04 - 06:51 PM

"Didn't get up this mornin'..."

;-)

Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone?
From: Chris Green
Date: 30 Nov 04 - 06:57 PM

After a particularly cack gig the other night - "This beats the shit out of playing in Dudley". :)

Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone?
From: Rapparee
Date: 30 Nov 04 - 07:02 PM

I've always said that I wanted to be encased in a cylinder of plastic, like a starfish in a biology lab. Encased standing, clothed in some obnoxious thing, both hands raised to about chest level, palms towards my body, middle fingers raised. An eyebolt in the top of the cylinder.

Then they can just drill a hole and stick me in, corking it with a neat cylindrical stone. Therefore, in the future, if anyone says, "Gee, I wonder what he looked like and thought of life?" they can uncork the grave, put a hook into the eyebolt, yank me up, and find out the answers.

(Actually, my driver's license states that anything that's needed can be used -- and my wife knows that. I really don't care about a stone, but if they have one I don't want one of those dinky, silly flat things. I want something that the caretakers have to mow around. And having made the things, I want it done right if it's to be done at all.)

Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone?
From: Shanghaiceltic
Date: 30 Nov 04 - 07:03 PM

Medical science can have my body but whatever bits not used need to be buried.

'Rest in Pieces'

Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 30 Nov 04 - 07:23 PM

When I'm dead, I'll definitely be stuffed...

Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone?
From: GUEST
Date: 30 Nov 04 - 07:39 PM

1. Died on (insert date)with great reluctance
John Ireland

Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone?
From: JennyO
Date: 30 Nov 04 - 09:04 PM

200. I thank you.

Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone?
From: Joe_F
Date: 30 Nov 04 - 09:06 PM

He got around to everything eventually.

Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone?
From: Jeep man
Date: 30 Nov 04 - 09:11 PM

"HE DONE HIS DAMNDEST" JEEP

Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone?
From: Blissfully Ignorant
Date: 30 Nov 04 - 09:16 PM

'It's warmer in Hell'

Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone?
From: mack/misophist
Date: 30 Nov 04 - 10:25 PM

No epitaph. No stone. Cremation sounds good. Just dump the ashes in the trash. Best would be to drop the body into the middle of a big wilderness and let the animals have it.

Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone?
From: katlaughing
Date: 30 Nov 04 - 10:25 PM

Next?

Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone?
From: freightdawg
Date: 30 Nov 04 - 10:50 PM

Rats, Geoff. You beat me to it.

My second choice, "Old Pilots Never Die. He Just Landed At The Wrong Airport"

Of course, my headstone is going to be so big that is just the beginning of what I want written on it.

(snigger, snigger)

Freightdawg