I lived with my wife for 60 years
And died in the confident hope of a better life.
** Or
Do I hear, Encore?
Or**
That’s It!!
“Freedom… At long last, freedom…”
Fitting words for a reanimated zombie. Well played.
The sad thing about this 9 1/2 year old zombie thread is that the obvious joke was already done in post 41.
zombie or no.
is this an old fashioned stone or could it be something like the Contempo?
Spike Milligan finally got what he wanted on his gravestone, by the way (“I told you I was ill”, not sick, he wasn’t American) but the diocese wouldn’t let them write it in English so it’s in Irish: “Duirt me leat go raibh me breoite”.
Well, I’m not really planning to be buried, but I used to want my epitaph to read:
"You can tell Mr. Paul David Hewson that we can’t find it here, either."
–G!
I have held the
Hand of the devil
It was warm in the night
I was cold as a stone
…–U2
… 
…The Joshua Tree
Whenever the topic of burial comes up and someone says “Oh, I’ll be dead so who cares? Just dump me in a ditch”, I like to go the opposite route.
I want a giant gold plated statue of an angel with flaming gas jets for eyes who bellows forth…
Within this ground lies Jophiel
Look upon it and anguish!
For if the Gods saw fit to remove him from this Earth
What value could your own life hold?
…whenever anyone approaches. Pfffttt… ditch, indeed.
People who like you?
I have a joint plot with my parents, so mine is already filled out.
OUR LAST NAME
Our Names and Years as they happen
“I am all at once what Christ is, since he was what I am…
IMMORTAL DIAMOND.”
from Gerard Manley Hopkins That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of the comfort of the Resurrection
In a flash, at a trumpet crash,
I am all at once what Christ is, | since he was what I am, and
This Jack, joke, poor potsherd, | patch, matchwood, immortal diamond,
Is immortal diamond.
I want a bench, a nice tree and an invitation for passers by to sit down and enjoy the peace and quiet. Or eat a sandwich.
I did this once, for a therapy assignment. The answer was pretty immediate.
The quote that most accurately reflects my life, and my overall life philosophy:
‘‘What is to give light must endure burning.’’ -Viktor Frankl
I really won’t have one, since I won’t be dead (I’ll enter “coldsleep”).
But if I had one, it will say…“See you on May12, 2345”
First and foremost, I want this statue on it. Unfortunately, all the cemetaries around here are flat-stones-only-no-statues, so I don’t know if that’s possible.
Other than that… Husband has said he wants his grave to say “REPENT!”, so I said that mine next to his would have to say “Unrepentant.”
When Husband’s aunt died, they had a photograph of her set into the gravestone, kinda like this, but using a glamour shot she had taken just a year or so before she passed (she died in her 40’s). I joked that I’d like to have one of those too, but regardless of how old I was when I died, they should use my high school photo. That way people will look at it, see that I was 110 when I passed, and admire how goodlooking I was for my age!
I heard Karen Carpenters read:
“why do buzzards,
Suddenly apper?”
“She never killed anyone who didn’t need killing.”
“a lot” is two words
“I told you I was sick”
“His reign of terror at last is ended.”
“Remember that you in time shall follow me.”