# A final message, what do you say and what media to use?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-final-message-what-do-you-say-and-what-media-to-use/457586>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 24, 2008, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-final-message-what-do-you-say-and-what-media-to-use/457586 "2008-07-24T05:05:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2008, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-final-message-what-do-you-say-and-what-media-to-use/457586/21 "2008-07-25T23:02:59Z")

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I haven’t decided what to say, but it’ll be recorded on 8-track, the format of the gods.

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**Author:** ![Full\_Metal\_Lotus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df705f/32.png) [@Full\_Metal\_Lotus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Full_Metal_Lotus)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2008, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-final-message-what-do-you-say-and-what-media-to-use/457586/22 "2008-07-26T03:59:15Z")

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a friend of mine owns some land with a forward leaning (ie sheltered) sand stone cliff.

I have approached him with the idea of doing some petroglyphs on it. Not so much a final statement, but a general message from “our” time to the indefinite future.

Things I have considered including…

some “mysteries” (ie: The Hiesenberg uncertainty statement, expressed in symbolic logic)

A fractal pattern

depiction of a Mobius strip

a “sprayed” hand print…

FML

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**Author:** ![InternetLegend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/internetlegend/32/13154_2.png) [@InternetLegend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InternetLegend)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2008, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-final-message-what-do-you-say-and-what-media-to-use/457586/23 "2008-07-26T04:13:19Z")

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If I’m dead, there’s really nothing I need to say anymore. I figure there’s no point in trying to hog the conversation once I’m no longer in the room.

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**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2008, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-final-message-what-do-you-say-and-what-media-to-use/457586/24 "2008-07-26T04:25:44Z")

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[QUOTE=InternetLegend]  
If I’m dead, there’s really nothing I need to say anymore. I figure there’s no point in trying to hog the conversation once I’m no longer in the room.  
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Actually, I kinda like the idea.

I hope people get shit-faced or otherwise really happy when I die. Not _because_ I died, but hell’s bells, don’t go all morose on me. Celebrate life, have some fun, go out and moon someone, whatever. Laugh your asses off if you can, while you can.

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**Author:** ![SSG\_Schwartz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SSG\_Schwartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SSG_Schwartz)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2008, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-final-message-what-do-you-say-and-what-media-to-use/457586/25 "2008-07-26T05:14:06Z")

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Let’s do it. _Gary Gilmore_  
Read by the prison official in the death chamber.

SSG Schwartz

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