# What Do You Really Want on Your Gravestone and Another Question **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 23, 2012, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-really-want-on-your-gravestone-and-another-question/622887 "2012-05-23T22:58:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2012, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-really-want-on-your-gravestone-and-another-question/622887/41 "2012-05-25T10:36:50Z")
Mine is shared, so I hope to get my name on it along with those of a bunch of relatives (hopefully, the names already on it will include my mother but will not include my nephews - Bros names optional). Make room, coming in!\* - There are a couple of names on it where the body didn’t end up there; the grave acts both as a temporary deposit for rotting bodies and as a memorial for any family members who died, including those who chose to donate the body. ---
**Author:** ![Hogfather65](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/7bcc69/32.png) [@Hogfather65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hogfather65)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2012, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-really-want-on-your-gravestone-and-another-question/622887/42 "2012-05-25T10:58:26Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > I want a ctrl-alt-delete stone. :D:D ---
**Author:** ![sandra\_nz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@sandra\_nz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sandra_nz)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2012, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-really-want-on-your-gravestone-and-another-question/622887/43 "2012-05-25T11:39:04Z")
I aten’t ded ---
**Author:** ![Hogfather65](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/7bcc69/32.png) [@Hogfather65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hogfather65)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2012, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-really-want-on-your-gravestone-and-another-question/622887/44 "2012-05-25T12:22:32Z")
I have 3. 1. Duty is heavy as a mountain but Death is lighter than a feather. - Robert Jordan Quote - very poetic… 2. It this thing on… 3. Damb that was sore! Oh and I used to make headstones - family business - now into computers - I’m getting burried :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2012, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-really-want-on-your-gravestone-and-another-question/622887/45 "2012-05-25T15:49:28Z")
> [@Hogfather65](#): > > 1. Duty is heavy as a mountain but Death is lighter than a feather. - Robert Jordan Quote - very poetic… Poetic, yes. Robert Jordan, no. He used the quote in one of his books but he didn’t invent it. It’s an old Asian proverb (it’s best known in its Japanese form but it apparently originated in China). ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2012, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-really-want-on-your-gravestone-and-another-question/622887/46 "2012-05-25T15:51:47Z")
Sting said once that he thought “Woke up in my clothes again this morning” would make a good epitaph when his time came. ---
**Author:** ![Hogfather65](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/7bcc69/32.png) [@Hogfather65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hogfather65)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2012, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-really-want-on-your-gravestone-and-another-question/622887/47 "2012-05-25T15:57:06Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Poetic, yes. Robert Jordan, no. > > He used the quote in one of his books but he didn’t invent it. It’s an old Asian proverb (it’s best known in its Japanese form but it apparently originated in China). Agree - had heard that but as far as i’m concerned it’s from the wheel of time books… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-really-want-on-your-gravestone-and-another-question/622887.md?page=2)