Mine will be…
“Nobody ever knew me, although many thought they did.”
How could you really know somebody without living in their skin?
Won’t you turn your head once more
And make your peace with everyone
For Those who choose to stay will live just one more day
To do the things they should have done
if I am lacking in levity at the time
Probably have to go with the old Frankl quote.
“What is to give light must endure burning.”
You’re welcome!
(Can’t claim it as my own joke, alas; I heard it somewhere and it seemed like a good place to pass it on)
If we’re getting serious, I like the one that goes something like:
As you are now, so I once was;
As I am now, so you will be.
To my friends, my thanks.
To my family, my love.
To my pallbearers…my apologies.
I should have cut back on the pie.
or the old classic
When I die,
my atoms will come undone.
I’ll be space dust, once again.
The wind will carry me,
and scatter me everywhere,
like dandelions in springtime
I’ll visit worlds and alien moons,
it will be so damn poetic –
until I land on your sandwich.
“A heart is judged not by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others.”
Notwithstanding @solost’s excellent joke I have an idea assuming you prefer scattering to interring someplace.
Combine your line of work and love of sudden loud noises with the now-common silliness of a gender reveal party.
So after the appropriate words are said and the crowd is gathered a charge will be set, your ashes placed atop, and the blast detonated to perform the scattering in fine EOD style. The crowd can attempt to divine your ghost’s gender and attitude to haunting from the color of the smoke and flying powder.
Is it a Ghoul or a Bogle?
Nitpicky little known fact: The quote is more properly attributed to Allen Saunders in 1957.
For my own epitaph I guess I’d pick “Don’t Laugh. You’re Next.”
On the tombstone in my local cemetery growing up, the entire verse:
Remember me as you pass by.
As you are now so once was I;
As I am now so you will be.
Prepare for death and follow me.
He ate what what set before him.
Credit to Robert Heinlein
I just ordered an urn to hold the earthly remains of my mother who recently passed. The inscription says “There were extenuating circumstances, dammit!”
I’m sure she would’ve gotten a kick out of it.
I have no clue what I want for mine, if any.
Perhaps “Mom warned me there’d be days like this”?
“Would it have killed you to have showered at least once?”
I wasn’t finished
Veni, vidi, iterum abii
(I came, I saw, I left again)
.
or go full M-Py:
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That’s just a flesh wound
“Reliable”