# 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:** 15\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2012, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-like-on-your-tombstone/166062/101 "2012-12-14T08:02:08Z")
“Eaten by a grue.” ---
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2012, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-like-on-your-tombstone/166062/102 "2012-12-14T08:10:07Z")
“I told you my feet were killing me.” ---
**Author:** ![SandyHook](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dec6dc/32.png) [@SandyHook](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SandyHook)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2012, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-like-on-your-tombstone/166062/103 "2012-12-15T01:56:28Z")
Ms Hook and I found one in an El Paso cemetery that I rather enjoyed. Dr. John Louis Greggerson “Doc Holiday” June 12, 1956 April 28, 2008 Miss on you pister if you think you’re so mucking fuch. Don’t think I’d want it on my grave but certainly approve of someone else having it on there’s. ---
**Author:** ![Nunzio\_Tavulari](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Nunzio\_Tavulari](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nunzio_Tavulari)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2012, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-like-on-your-tombstone/166062/104 "2012-12-15T02:43:47Z")
Oh, you’re wearing the pink ones today. Those are my favorite! ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2012, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-like-on-your-tombstone/166062/105 "2012-12-15T03:32:46Z")
“Now THAT was a Kiss…!” …I know, I know… but I can only do it Once… ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2012, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-like-on-your-tombstone/166062/106 "2012-12-15T06:39:03Z")
Dayum, I just now spotted the this thread’s title in the thread-list page, and _immediately_ knew what silly-ass answer I wanted to post. And upon opening the thread, what do I see? Post #2 (yes, post #2) said it for me. GMTA! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2012, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-like-on-your-tombstone/166062/107 "2012-12-15T07:13:06Z")
“When hell is full the dead will walk the earth” It seemed appropriate to this thread. ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2012, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-like-on-your-tombstone/166062/108 "2012-12-15T10:36:50Z")
These words from Longfellow’s “Evangeline”: “And from the moonlit meadow, a sigh responded, ‘Tomorrow!’” ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2012, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-like-on-your-tombstone/166062/109 "2012-12-15T14:37:41Z")
“Death By Misadventure” (also, there’s a chance, I already posted this somewhere way upthread back in 2003, but I’m too lazy to weed through.) ---
**Author:** ![Coustralee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Coustralee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coustralee)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2012, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-like-on-your-tombstone/166062/110 "2012-12-15T14:58:11Z")
dunno about an epitaph… the stone should be in the shape of a pizza with a request for no flowers, but tomatoes or herbs should be planted instead. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2012, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-like-on-your-tombstone/166062/111 "2012-12-15T15:15:18Z")
"Here lies an atheist. If I was wrong, I’ll see you in Hell." ---
**Author:** ![minionkat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@minionkat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minionkat)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2012, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-like-on-your-tombstone/166062/112 "2012-12-15T16:06:43Z")
Nothing gold can stay. More to the point, I want someone to want to put that on there for me. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Archeonomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7cd45c/32.png) [@Archeonomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Archeonomist)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2012, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-like-on-your-tombstone/166062/113 "2012-12-15T16:31:22Z")
His heart and hands finally stopped beating. ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2012, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-like-on-your-tombstone/166062/114 "2012-12-15T17:42:22Z")
Slap Bet Commissioner ---
**Author:** ![pwmeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/da6949/32.png) [@pwmeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pwmeek)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2012, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-like-on-your-tombstone/166062/115 "2012-12-16T17:06:22Z")
Fibonacci wanted a Fibonacci Curve engraved on his headstone, but the executor couldn’t explain it properly to the stone-cutter, so he got an arithmetic spiral instead. I find that very sad. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-like-on-your-tombstone/166062.md?page=5)