BS: What do you want on your gravestone?

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From: Cluin
Date: 01 Dec 04 - 11:22 AM

"Just another dead fucker"

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From: Flash Company
Date: 01 Dec 04 - 11:18 AM

How about:-

I'm a Celebrity, get me out of here!

FC

Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone?
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Dec 04 - 11:04 AM

He died first:

"Stranger, note as you pass by
As you are now, so once was I
As I am now, so will you be
Prepare for Death and follow me."

And his good friend, next to whom he'd purchased his grave and with whom he'd had a falling out just before he died, passed away and had this as his epitath:

"To follow you I'm not content
For I know not which way you went."


Why not buy a large field somewhere, a sunny field bordered by mountains and the seashore, and turn it into the Mudcat Memorial Field? Graves and gravestones, scatterings, a mausoleum (you want it, you build it), a couple of pubs, picnic tables, gardens, nooks for private moments alone or with others, places to place and sing -- British Columbia, Washington, or Oregon come to mind as places that might have such a place available.

Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone?
From: Ellenpoly
Date: 01 Dec 04 - 09:27 AM

Speaking of old gravestone markers, here's one from my local cemetary which always catches my eye in my regular rambles:

"He Had a Love Affair With Death"

Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone?
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 01 Dec 04 - 09:13 AM

JennyO -- a friend of ours does that recitation at our sessions occasionally. Love it!

Since I can't dispose of my body by slow oxidation in the treetops (I'm afraid of height, anyway), I'm also opting for cremation and scattering. But since I've spent so much of my life studying New England slate gravestones, I really want one as a marker. I'll probably carve it myself if I can't get one of my favorite (living) carvers to do it. Haven't a clue as to what I want on it, though.

Best line I've run into in my meanderings through old graveyards is on the markers for TWO different women in York, Maine -- "She lived desired and died lamented." Probably can't get much better than that!

Linn (the thanatolithologist)

Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone?
From: JennyO
Date: 01 Dec 04 - 07:41 AM

All this talk of dying and gravestones reminded me of a poem - maybe a quote from it somewhere might be apt.

Reincarnation - Wallace McRae

What does reincarnation mean?"
A cowpoke asked his friend.
His pal replied, "It happens when
Yer life has reached its end.
They comb yer hair, and warsh yer neck,
And clean yer fingernails,
And lay you in a padded box                        
Away from life's travails.                

"The box and you goes in a hole,
that's been dug into the ground.
Reincarnation starts in when
Yore planted 'neath a mound.
Them clods melt down, just like yer box,
And you who is inside.
And then yore just beginnin' on
Yer transformation ride.

"In a while the grass'll grow
Upon yer rendered mound.
Till some day on yer moldered grave
A lonely flower is found.
And say a hoss should wander by
And graze upon this flower
That once wuz you, but now's become
Yer vegetative bower.

"The posey that the hoss done ate
Up, with his other feed,
Makes bone, and fat, and muscle
Essential to the steed.
But some is left that he can't use
And so it passes through,
And finally lays upon the ground.
This thing, that once wuz you.

"Then say, by chance, I wanders by
And sees this upon the ground,
And I ponders, and I wonders at,
This object that I found.
I thinks of reincarnation,
Of life, and death, and such,
And come away concludin': Slim,
You ain't changed all that much."

Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone?
From: muppett
Date: 01 Dec 04 - 07:01 AM

Beneath this sod lies another

Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone?
From: kendall
Date: 01 Dec 04 - 06:11 AM

I KNEW IF I LIVED LONG ENOUGH THIS WOULD HAPPEN

Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone?
From: Ellenpoly
Date: 01 Dec 04 - 06:11 AM

So why exactly are you asking this, huh? Do you know something I don't know? Huh? Huh?

I have no intention of being buried. I want my body to be eaten by my friends.

If they refuse, I'll let the medics have me.

Anyone want to sign up now for my brain? It's been only lightly used, and should be quite tasty with a little marinara sauce.

;-D

..xx..e

Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone?
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 01 Dec 04 - 05:18 AM

I always liked the Derek brimstone line:-
If I should die, think only this of me
In some corner of a foreign field lies...
a plagiarist.

Its a depressing thought alright, a lovely sunny morning like today and the party goes on without us - no one much noticing that we've checked out, and won't be coming back. Like Keats said, here lies one whose name was writ in water....

Like a lot of people here I've left instuctions, I don't want any kind of funeral. People have a chance to say nice things about you when you're alive. that's when it counts.

someone once wrote that Dickens wept over Thackeray's grave, but when they were both alive the and competing with each other, the boxing gloves were off.......an unpleasant side to us a species!

Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone?
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 01 Dec 04 - 05:04 AM

On the whole I'd rather be in Philadelphia. [ WC Fields ]


eric

Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone?
From: Crystal
Date: 01 Dec 04 - 04:35 AM

Hmmm.
I'd have a flat one with "Memorial dancefloor" on it.

Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone?
From: Seamus Kennedy
Date: 01 Dec 04 - 03:47 AM

I've made arrangements to leave my body to medical science (U.MD) but if I did have a headstone, I'd like "Dig me up quick! I'm not dead." Or: "Seamus Kennedy, the World's Greatest Hide-And-Seek Player."
Or:" Seamus Kennedy - died of Narcolepsy. Oh shit! Wait! Dig! Dig!"

Seamus

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From: GUEST
Date: 01 Dec 04 - 02:48 AM

Good night, Gracie.

Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone?
From: chris nightbird childs
Date: 01 Dec 04 - 12:58 AM

"Let yr spirit burn, 'n they'll still smell the smoke when yr gone"

Subject: RE: BS: What do you want on your gravestone?
From: Justa Picker
Date: 01 Dec 04 - 12:56 AM

Nice of you to notice. :-)

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From: GUEST
Date: 30 Nov 04 - 11:57 PM

Justa Picker - you're warped!

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From: open mike
Date: 30 Nov 04 - 11:39 PM

IF YOU DO WANT TO DONATE YOUR BODY TO MEDICAL SCIENCE
you need to make prepartaions well before the time.
find the nearest medical facility and find out whqat
their policy is. My parents donated thier bodies and
it was a great feeling to know they were able to help
future medical students.
Some have restrictions on travel time, transportation,
etc. and the people around need to know what arrangements
have been made .

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

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

Next?

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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: Blissfully Ignorant
Date: 30 Nov 04 - 09:16 PM

'It's warmer in Hell'

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From: Jeep man
Date: 30 Nov 04 - 09:11 PM

"HE DONE HIS DAMNDEST" JEEP

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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: JennyO
Date: 30 Nov 04 - 09:04 PM

200. I thank you.

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

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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: 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: 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: 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". :)

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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: Bobert
Date: 30 Nov 04 - 05:24 PM

Well, danged...

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: 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: 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: 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 - 04:39 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 - 04:30 PM

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

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"

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From: the fence
Date: 30 Nov 04 - 03:38 PM

"Late again"

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From: Ebbie
Date: 30 Nov 04 - 03:34 PM

My Work Here is Done
Hi Yo, Silver!

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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: 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: 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: 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: Clinton Hammond
Date: 30 Nov 04 - 02:37 PM

Here here brucie!

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: 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: 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: 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!"