What would you like on your tombstone?

“Why are you wasting your life reading my tombstone?”

“I tried.”

-or-

“See you later.”

-or maybe…_

A la Kramer, I’d like to have “Man’s best friend” on mine.

Happy

I want the solar-powered weatherproof interactive net-connected AI video terminal with wireless access to my life’s pictures, videos, music, etc.

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.”

“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.

“Help! I’m trapped under six feet of earth!”
“I shall return!”

No. Karen Carpenter’s tombstone reads: “I Wish I’d eaten the ham sandwich Mama Cass Elliot choked to death on.”

“Here lies only the shell. The nut has gone Home.”

Supposedly an actual gaffe made by an actual preacher at an actual funeral…

They signify an important purpose to some. But only for those wealthy enough to secure a prepaid burial plot in the centuries to come.

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!!

Oh, and mine would be:

Somebody else will have to do the dishes from now on. :smiley:

“Well, this sucks.”

“The Earth is the cradle of the mind, but one cannot stay in the cradle forever.”

404 Error: Person Not Found

“Dammit. I wanted to be cremated and sprinkled into the Pacific.”

I’m watching you

Born 1972. Died 2122.

It’s about time.

“So it goes.”

(I’m reading Vonnegut right now)