# 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:** 3
**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, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-on-your-tombstone/512000/41 "2009-09-29T21:47:43Z")
> [@Jodi](#): > > I think that one’s taken. I love the classics. ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2009, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-on-your-tombstone/512000/42 "2009-09-29T22:11:29Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > 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” I can come by and leave this traditional graffito to complete the scenario. "To follow you I’ll not consent Until I know which way you went. " ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2009, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-on-your-tombstone/512000/43 "2009-09-29T22:13:44Z")
> [@MadTheSwine](#): > > Pepperoni **MadTheSwine** , you swine! Beat me to it! DAMMIT!:smack: ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2009, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-on-your-tombstone/512000/44 "2009-09-29T22:17:04Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > 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!) They’ll call you Qadgop the Nerdy Ghost. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2009, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-on-your-tombstone/512000/45 "2009-09-29T22:35:10Z")
“Wake me when the zombie apocalypse comes” ---
**Author:** ![spoike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/da6949/32.png) [@spoike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spoike)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2009, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-on-your-tombstone/512000/46 "2009-09-30T00:40:43Z")
Well, I don’t really want a tombstone, as I want my ashes scattered, but if there was a memorial bench somewhere, I’d like it to say: “It is a fearful thing to love what death can touch.” I heard it on an episode of This American Life. I believe it’s the epitaph of Page Smith. ---
**Author:** ![Surly\_Chick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Surly\_Chick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surly_Chick)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2009, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-on-your-tombstone/512000/47 "2009-09-30T01:08:15Z")
“The world weeps.” Think big, I says. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2009, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-on-your-tombstone/512000/48 "2009-09-30T01:24:11Z")
Considering how much of a fan I am of the X-Files, a quote (though not dialogue) from the show might be appropriate. All done. Bye bye. ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2009, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-on-your-tombstone/512000/49 "2009-09-30T01:35:35Z")
Life’s a bitch ---
**Author:** ![BaneSidhe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c5a1d2/32.png) [@BaneSidhe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BaneSidhe)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2009, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-on-your-tombstone/512000/50 "2009-09-30T01:36:37Z")
Stealing one here—“Pardon me if I don’t get up.” ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2009, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-on-your-tombstone/512000/51 "2009-09-30T02:05:11Z")
This Space for Rent. ---
**Author:** ![Blisters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@Blisters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blisters)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2009, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-on-your-tombstone/512000/52 "2009-09-30T02:07:58Z")
we joked (yes, we’re a sick family) that my Dad’s should say, “I’m just resting my eyes” ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Mondegreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/91b2a8/32.png) [@Lord\_Mondegreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Mondegreen)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2009, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-on-your-tombstone/512000/53 "2009-09-30T04:12:53Z")
“This plot reserved for Lord Mondegreen. 250 years old and still going strong.” ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2009, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-on-your-tombstone/512000/54 "2009-09-30T04:52:20Z")
I also thought of just a large “X” in conjunction with a beyond-the-grave geocaching medalion that says: “Wealth is measured in time, It can only be spent with friends Is beyond the reach of thieves Survives in memory past death’s grip”. ---
**Author:** ![drastic\_quench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2009, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-on-your-tombstone/512000/55 "2009-09-30T04:59:39Z")
Meh. ---
**Author:** ![Sunshine\_and\_Smiles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Sunshine\_and\_Smiles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunshine_and_Smiles)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2009, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-on-your-tombstone/512000/56 "2009-09-30T05:07:17Z")
The advertisement is about meeting other goths near me. Heh. While I honestly don’t see myself bedding down eternally in a cemetery, I like to think my tombstone would read: "The Greatest Man That Ever Lived\* \*According to Himself" ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2009, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-on-your-tombstone/512000/57 "2009-09-30T05:14:09Z")
[That is not dead which can eternal lie . . .](http://www.redimg.net/archivos/147/Caleb/Caleb.Iron.Maiden.Live.After.Death.jpg) - or - Go tell the Spartans . . . - or - The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes—or it prospers; and anon, Like Snow upon the Desert’s dusty Face Lighting a little Hour or two—is gone. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2009, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-on-your-tombstone/512000/58 "2009-09-30T05:27:53Z")
Mine would simply display the following: [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edaJP3Lp0Gg) ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2009, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-on-your-tombstone/512000/59 "2009-09-30T05:32:12Z")
Penn and Teller actually have a [magic trick](http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?GRid=3660&page=gr)on theirs. (They’re both still alive of course, but it already works as part of their act and they’ve announced their intention to make it more elaborate “when the time comes”.) I’ve always thought that was cool. I also think that a Mobius strip headstone would be neat. ---
**Author:** ![Bag\_of\_Mostly\_Water](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bag_of_mostly_water/32/1029_2.png) [@Bag\_of\_Mostly\_Water](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bag_of_Mostly_Water)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2009, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-on-your-tombstone/512000/60 "2009-09-30T11:24:51Z")
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