What do you want on your tombstone?

one suggestion

  • My motto: When nature hands you lemons make hard lemonade

  • A list of countries I’d overrun for a while. Two lists, one before and after exile on Elba

  • Now that fancy tombstones can be created by sandblasting with computer generated stencils, I’d like pictures and a lot of jokes on mine.

  • Maybe a testimonial from my children about how I’ll be missed, that would be nice. With a disclaimer that they never knew about the stuff in my posthumous memoirs.

  • A plea that instead of flowers on my grave, people donate to keeping my facebook page current with any obits and retrospectives

“I told you I was sick.”

Pepperoni

I acknowledge this may be out of the spirit of this thread, but I have no interest in having a tombstone. Or maybe plant me under a tree or in a garden somewhere, and erect a small sign saying "This tree/garden fertilized by Dinsdale 1960-20??"

I’ve always been partial to “Here lies an atheist - all dressed up and nowhere to go.”

The seal of the United States Supreme Court would be nice, too.

Nothing. Simply scatter my ashes somewhere nice.

I never got my Klondike Bar.

Beer

If I have to get buried, a skull and crossbones. And the inscription: “Don’t think it won’t happen just because it hasn’t happened yet”.

I’d rather be cremated but hubby says he’s not going to go for that.

Heh - just thought of a good one.

“Look behind you, John.”

You just know that someday, some poor dude named John is going to see that - and he’ll be seriously unsettled."

My children are both well aware that I want my tombstone to say, “I did not eat those Flintstone chewable vitamins and I did not quit my job because Deana told me to.”

Let future generations make something out of that!

wish you were here

Whatchou lookin at?

“I hate it here.”

No matter what you do you’re gonna end up here too.

Placed right after the year in which I die, “This is not a typo.”

My wife wants hers to read, “I’m with Stupid.”

I don’t really understand why.

Jeez, he really let himself go.

“You’re standing on my foot.” Then I’ll haunt the graveyard for all eternity so I can watch people wander up, read it, then step quickly back.

I also like, “Here lies only the shell. The nut has gone on.”

This tombstone unnecessary.