Have you ever thought about what you want on your headstone?

[Bretrick]

Many years ago I did think about this. When I was deep into my alcoholism and highly depressed. I often thought about dying and came up with this epithet.
Brett, died of a broken heart.
What would I like now? Think I will go for cremation and have ashes sprinkled on the wind.

 

[dilettante]

I've thought about it but I never did come up with anything very original or pithy. Thinking now, I'm not sure who the message would be for. My kids? Their kids? Getting a rise out of passing strangers? Deep wisdom passed on to future generations?

A few months back I started looking into the mechanics of buying burial plots and what might be available. Sort of a creepy gift to your children though, eh?

But I'm still uncertain where this tumbleweed will come to rest.

 

[hollydolly]

Just this...

 

[mrstime]

I don't need nor want a headstone. DH or son can dispose of the ashes anyway they want.

 

[CinnamonSugar]

This is strictly a joke; I posted this after driving/working (and having to park ) in downtown Seattle 6 years ago with my first travel nurse assignment

 

[VaughanJB]

I"m not going to have a headstone. So no.

 

[Marie5656]

Song lyrics..."Think of her, laugh, don;t cry. You know she'd want it that way"

Next choice...I told you I was sick

 

[SeaBreeze]

I don't need nor want a headstone. DH or son can dispose of the ashes anyway they want.

Same here, cremation , no headstone, ashes can go where they may at the time.

 

[Marie5656]

 

[bowmore]

Not me. I will have my ashes scattered offshore where I scattered my late wife' ashes.

 

[PeppermintPatty]

No. I want to be cremated with my husband and our pets.

 

[Buckeye]

I already have one - when my first wife died, over 20 years ago, I bought 2 cemetery plots and a large monument with the family name on one side, our names and dob / dod on the other. But I've since changed my plans and my ashes will not be there.

 

[oscash]

Although I have donated my organs or whatever parts they want, I told my sons I want to be cremated. My husband is in the cemetery in a double grave , but he never discussed it with me, my wishes. I want my ashes to be sprinkled over his grave, alongside my parents grave.

 

[dilettante]

Ok, this is in bad taste. But it might be funny to stumble upon one that simply said "Pepperoni and Mushrooms."

 

[oldaunt]

Nope. No headstone, no grave, no funeral.

 

[Warrigal]

Next choice...I told you I was sick

Spike Milligan?

Comedy legend Spike Milligan has finally got the last laugh, more than two years after his death.
It follows an agreement with the local diocese over the wording on the headstone of his grave at St Thomas's Church in Winchelsea, East Sussex.

Relatives of the former Goon have now decided that it can bear the star's epitaph: "I told you I was ill."

However, the inscription had to be written in Gaelic in order for it to be approved by the Chichester Diocese. It now bears the words "Duirt me leat go raibh me breoite", or "I told you I was ill", and the English words "Love, light, peace". Bill Horsman, chairman of the Goon Show Preservation Society, said: "News of the headstone going up on Spike's grave is marvellous. We had been very concerned for some time about the situation.

"It was very sad that the grave was in such a state, but it was down to very sensitive family problems and we simply could not get involved.

"We're very pleased it's been resolved and with such a classic Spike line.

"We all fell about laughing when we heard it."

 

[seadoug]

I still have a burial plot in NC next to my father and his parents. For all I know, they've already created my head stone. I hope they included "Don't look for him here. He was cremated".

 

[birdy]

Nope. No headstone, no grave, no funeral.

Same here.

 

[Naturally]

No idea about mine. Won't even care if they misspell my name I guess.

I'll share part of what is on my parent's headstones ...
Mom humorously said dad sometimes acted like a four year old ... so "4" was an inside family joke while he lived.
And "4" is down in the lower right corner of his headstone.
Dad humorously called mom "Miss Funny". That was his endearment for mom.
And "Miss Funny" is down in the lower right corner of her headstone.

 

[Ruthanne]

She's Dead

Good and Dead!

 

[dilettante]

Ding dong?

 

[Furryanimal]

I’m behind you!

 

[fuzzybuddy]

I don't want one, but on my tombstone I'd like "Here Lies The World's Longest Lived Human".

 

[Pepper]

I'm not having one. Let those who've loved me remember me in their hearts. In that way I will live. If my 'story' is passed down I will live for as long as there are those who remember me. My grandson has already been told stories of my grandma. He might tell his children of her, of me. I hope so. That is my tombstone.

 

[WheatenLover]

Cremation, scatter, no funeral.