# What would you like on your tombstone? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 2, 2003, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-like-on-your-tombstone/166062 "2003-04-02T22:11:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Dogface](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9d8465/32.png) [@Dogface](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogface)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2003, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-like-on-your-tombstone/166062/21 "2003-04-03T04:08:26Z")
“Why are you wasting your life reading my tombstone?” ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2003, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-like-on-your-tombstone/166062/22 "2003-04-03T04:24:56Z")
“I tried.” -or- “See you later.” -or maybe…\_ ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2003, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-like-on-your-tombstone/166062/23 "2003-04-03T04:36:24Z")
A la Kramer, I’d like to have “Man’s best friend” on mine. Happy ---
**Author:** ![petcat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5fc32e/32.png) [@petcat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/petcat)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2003, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-like-on-your-tombstone/166062/24 "2003-04-03T06:08:07Z")
I want the solar-powered weatherproof interactive net-connected AI video terminal with wireless access to my life’s pictures, videos, music, etc. ---
**Author:** ![LifeOnWry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/96bed5/32.png) [@LifeOnWry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LifeOnWry)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2003, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-like-on-your-tombstone/166062/25 "2003-04-03T06:23:02Z")
I picked this up from some book I read decades ago - I can’t give credit, because I have no recollection of any part of the book except this line: “Here Lies Nothing. Don’t Fall In.” I think, though, in reality I’d like mine to say: “Lived: as much as she could. Died: Only when she ran out of things to do.” ---
**Author:** ![AveDementia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc8723/32.png) [@AveDementia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AveDementia)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2003, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-like-on-your-tombstone/166062/26 "2003-04-03T07:57:57Z")
“Give my love to the future of humankind” (From a song by Space Hog, I always loved the sentiment.) Or if I were just going for humor I’d have a radioactive symbol. ---
**Author:** ![TitoBenito](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2acd7d/32.png) [@TitoBenito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TitoBenito)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2003, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-like-on-your-tombstone/166062/27 "2003-04-03T08:13:31Z")
“Help! I’m trapped under six feet of earth!” “I shall return!” ---
**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2003, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-like-on-your-tombstone/166062/28 "2003-04-03T08:17:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by DMark \* > \*\*Wasn’t Karen Carpenter’s: > > “You can’t be too rich.” \*\* No. Karen Carpenter’s tombstone reads: “I Wish I’d eaten the ham sandwich Mama Cass Elliot choked to death on.” ---
**Author:** ![Marlitharn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Marlitharn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlitharn)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2003, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-like-on-your-tombstone/166062/29 "2003-04-03T08:19:04Z")
“Here lies only the shell. The nut has gone Home.” Supposedly an actual gaffe made by an actual preacher at an actual funeral… ---
**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2003, 8:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-like-on-your-tombstone/166062/30 "2003-04-03T08:48:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Nimsay \* > \*\*I personally think that Tomb Stones are useless. I don’t see where they serve a signifigant purpose. \*\* They signify an important purpose to some. But only for those wealthy enough to secure a prepaid burial plot in the centuries to come. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2003, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-like-on-your-tombstone/166062/31 "2003-04-03T09:00:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lobsang \* > \*\* > > (“I told you I was sick” was Spike Milligan’s tombstone) \*\* It was what Spike said he _wanted_ his epitaph to be, but I don’t believe it has been etched yet. I read summat in the rag a few weeks ago that his family are feuding about various things, and I imagine that his ‘Last Words’ might be included in that!! ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2003, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-like-on-your-tombstone/166062/32 "2003-04-03T09:02:50Z")
Oh, and mine would be: **Somebody else will have to do the dishes from now on**. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Kal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de053/32.png) [@Kal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kal)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2003, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-like-on-your-tombstone/166062/33 "2003-04-03T10:21:06Z")
“Well, this sucks.” ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2003, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-like-on-your-tombstone/166062/34 "2003-04-03T10:42:01Z")
“The Earth is the cradle of the mind, but one cannot stay in the cradle forever.” ---
**Author:** ![garius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2003, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-like-on-your-tombstone/166062/35 "2003-04-03T11:16:30Z")
404 Error: Person Not Found ---
**Author:** ![Geek\_Mecha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecae2f/32.png) [@Geek\_Mecha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geek_Mecha)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2003, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-like-on-your-tombstone/166062/36 "2003-04-03T11:35:36Z")
“Dammit. I wanted to be cremated and sprinkled into the Pacific.” ---
**Author:** ![brainfizz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/da6949/32.png) [@brainfizz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brainfizz)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2003, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-like-on-your-tombstone/166062/37 "2003-04-03T11:37:57Z")
I’m watching you ---
**Author:** ![NardoPolo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecae2f/32.png) [@NardoPolo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NardoPolo)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2003, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-like-on-your-tombstone/166062/38 "2003-04-03T11:44:54Z")
Born 1972. Died 2122. ---
**Author:** ![j\_kat\_251](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/71c47a/32.png) [@j\_kat\_251](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j_kat_251)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2003, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-like-on-your-tombstone/166062/39 "2003-04-03T12:59:51Z")
It’s about time. ---
**Author:** ![Mephisto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/48db29/32.png) [@Mephisto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mephisto)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2003, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-like-on-your-tombstone/166062/40 "2003-04-03T13:32:35Z")
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