# What do you want on your tombstone? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 29, 2009, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-on-your-tombstone/512000 "2009-09-29T16:44:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2009, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-on-your-tombstone/512000/21 "2009-09-29T19:58:33Z")
There won’t be anything except what’s already there. My family’s grave is collective; the “main” names space ran out about 6 funerals ago and it’s unlikely we’ll start on the rest due to one of my cousins not being buried there. So I’ll just be part of where it says “(my great-grandfather’s name) and family.” ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2009, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-on-your-tombstone/512000/22 "2009-09-29T20:00:16Z")
A date at least 60 years into the future. ---
**Author:** ![myriad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de0a6/32.png) [@myriad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/myriad)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2009, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-on-your-tombstone/512000/23 "2009-09-29T20:00:55Z")
**Here lies Myriad buried alive** ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2009, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-on-your-tombstone/512000/24 "2009-09-29T20:38:03Z")
“You didn’t listen!!”, I guess. Another one who doesn’t want a tombstone and just wants to be cremated, ashes spread. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2009, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-on-your-tombstone/512000/25 "2009-09-29T20:39:54Z")
By the time you read this, I will be dead… ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2009, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-on-your-tombstone/512000/26 "2009-09-29T21:01:44Z")
Your message here – Ask about our low rates! ---
**Author:** ![prodicus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d9b06d/32.png) [@prodicus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/prodicus)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2009, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-on-your-tombstone/512000/27 "2009-09-29T21:06:47Z")
I once told my wife: “When I die, I want to be cremated, and to have my ashes spread in the dumpster behind the crematorium”. She wasn’t amused. ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2009, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-on-your-tombstone/512000/28 "2009-09-29T21:06:53Z")
“I’ll Be Right Back!” ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2009, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-on-your-tombstone/512000/29 "2009-09-29T21:07:26Z")
Keep it down up there! ---
**Author:** ![myriad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de0a6/32.png) [@myriad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/myriad)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2009, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-on-your-tombstone/512000/30 "2009-09-29T21:08:36Z")
> [@Labdad](#): > > “I’ll Be Right Back!” Oh…I like that one! ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2009, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-on-your-tombstone/512000/31 "2009-09-29T21:09:05Z")
> [@](#): > > 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”. > [@](#): > > No matter what you do you’re gonna end up here too. The classic in this vein is “Remember me, as you pass by As you are now, so once was I As I am now, so you shall be So prepare for death, and follow me” ---
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2009, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-on-your-tombstone/512000/32 "2009-09-29T21:11:42Z")
I’ve always been partial to “GONE TO BE AN ANGLE” That or “GOTCHA YA!” ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2009, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-on-your-tombstone/512000/33 "2009-09-29T21:13:37Z")
_Get off my lawn!_ ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2009, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-on-your-tombstone/512000/34 "2009-09-29T21:15:16Z")
“Game over” ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2009, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-on-your-tombstone/512000/35 "2009-09-29T21:18:25Z")
I don’t want a tombstone; I want to be cremated and my ashes flushed. If, by some chance, I end up with a tombstone, I want it to say, “I came, I saw, I died.” That will about cover it, I think. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2009, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-on-your-tombstone/512000/36 "2009-09-29T21:20:24Z")
Et Eärello Endorenna utúlie’n. Sinome maruvan tenn’ Ambar-metta. Utúlie’n lomë ar ilyë tier undulávë lumbulë. Auta nán i lomë. Aurë Entuluva! (Out of the great sea of Middle-earth I have come. Here I shall abide until the ending of the world. Night has come and all paths are drowned deep in shadow. But night passes. Day will come again!) ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2009, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-on-your-tombstone/512000/37 "2009-09-29T21:25:01Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > “Game over” [Yeah](http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f295/bedgyro/gameover.jpg). Or “All dressed up and nowhere to go.” Or “Do not open 'til 3978 CE” ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2009, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-on-your-tombstone/512000/38 "2009-09-29T21:31:46Z")
A mirror. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2009, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-on-your-tombstone/512000/39 "2009-09-29T21:42:48Z")
“Here lies pravnik, Author of the Declaration of American Independence, the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedon, and Father of the University of Virginia.” ---
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2009, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-on-your-tombstone/512000/40 "2009-09-29T21:43:54Z")
> [@pravnik](#): > > “Here lies pravnik, Author of the Declaration of American Independence, the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedon, and Father of the University of Virginia.” I think that one’s taken. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-on-your-tombstone/512000.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-on-your-tombstone/512000.md?page=3)