On the back of my earlier blog entry I am intrigued by what everyone would have written on their epitaph or headstone
What would you have written if allowed ?
On my headstone would be
“ Here Slumps John Gray
Loving friend, colleague, brother and husband
Back Home by 100 yards “
Tell me your chosen headstone epitaph ..
My stone is already inscribed. Between my late husbands name and mine is a single word: Beloved. Mine just waiting for a date
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DeleteMarlane here for the last time.
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DeleteLove Spike Milligan's quote "I told you I was ill". Janx
ReplyDeleteI always loved that one too
DeleteThat's always been a favourite of mine too.
DeleteThe pity is he had to have it in Irish Gaelic for the authorities to allow it!
DeleteYes, that’s why my epitaph reads simply
DeleteThere are rules about what you can’t write
Jan Morris' choice.
ReplyDeleteHere are two friends, at the end of one life. franinoz (lurker)
A engraved martini glass, centered, followed by-
ReplyDeleteMistress Borghese
Cheers Bitches.
I love this xx
DeleteI've always said that I would be
ReplyDeleteHere lies Jess
Beloved wife and mother
' I did it my way'
I do love the song but really it's the final time my wife can say I'm a stubborn woman, it's true and I find the idea of someone reading it very funny because they wouldn't really know the real meaning behind it but my family would.
Like my blog....
ReplyDeleteWithin me was the invincible summer. Go find yours.
I just Can not decide-but I'm often working on what music I would like x
ReplyDeleteLet us know
DeleteWell as you ask-I thought it once may be 70s funky funk but now as listen to classic FM all day and my favourites change-one is Vaughn Williams Rosymedre-Welsh Hymn -I have mum,and 2 uncles with Welsh names and since a small child vivid dreams of wearing Welsh costume weirdly(my previous life perhaps) x
DeleteHuh?
DeleteOh x
Deleteps-I forgot to say my Grandma had a Welsh name too-all I know of her family is they bred pomeranians-and I was fated to buy a clodau watch x
DeleteThe Final Adventure
ReplyDeleteNot quite
DeleteI’m not here…I’m at the beach
ReplyDeleteGreatful for family and a long, good life.
ReplyDeleteNice
DeleteCheers All
ReplyDeleteHappy xx
DeleteNo tombstone for me. Plop my ashes in a hole and put a lilac tree on top. I like the idea that those who love me will know where I am, and when they are gone, strangers will pause in the spring, and that I will play a small part in that pleasure.
ReplyDeleteNice one
Deletejust like high school
DeleteJack and Kris 4ever
and sweet pup Oz
Life goes quick, Love is forever!
You are at the beach
ReplyDeleteIf I were to have one it would say: Gone. And Forgotten.
ReplyDeleteNo headstone for me. I want to be cremated immediately and my ashes put in a hole and a tree planted on top same as my Mum. When we were kids she always said I don't care where you plant me but make sure I have a tree on top. So we did and we giggle about it all the time now.
ReplyDeleteJo in Auckland
Thank fuck that's over
ReplyDeleteOh I’d visit your grave if the headstone said that
DeleteNo headstone for me either. I tell my children to scatter my ashes somewhere that is meaningful to them and me.
ReplyDeleteNice
DeletePlease look after my sister now that I have gone.
ReplyDeleteNo headstone though..im being fryed.
This moved me greatly
DeleteMy sister is mentally challenged. I have been caring for her since our folks passed away in 2005. She's a wonderful funny person but hasn't a lick of sense. She is 61 going on 9 and I am 10 years older. I do plan on living a long time..
DeleteKeep off the Grass!
ReplyDeleteVery spike Milligan
Delete"I didn't die with my music still in me"
ReplyDeleteOr it might just be a simple "lol"
lol
That’s nice
DeleteNo headstone here either. Still plan to donate what is left of me. Somebody needs to find a cure for lupus and perhaps the clue is within me.
ReplyDeleteHugs!
Yes good luck babs
DeleteMy ashes will be thrown to the waves and the wind on a frigid winter day. No headstone needed. I'll be remembered in the glittering sparkle of summer surf, sandcastles, seaglass, hearts.
ReplyDeleteI’m not sure I’d have someone around to do that for me
DeleteJohn, you will always have people around you.
DeleteThey can plant me under a spring blooming tree if the beach becomes difficult. But the beach is, after all, right out the back door.
DeleteNo headstone here, either, but I think I'd like my eulogy to say along the lines of," She didn't always get it right, but she did it all with love." xx
ReplyDeleteNice
Delete'She meant well'.
ReplyDeleteI like this one
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ReplyDeleteNo headstone, but instructions, when finished with, please place on compost heap.
ReplyDeleteReturn to sender
DeleteA burden lifted.
ReplyDeleteLol
DeleteI'm Behind You!!
ReplyDeleteI wonder how many people would look over their shoulder :-)
Lol
DeleteOur local graveyard has a grave with the words 'Where ever you be let your wind go free because that was the cause of the death of me' this is true.
ReplyDeleteBriony
x
Lol , I like this one
DeleteI would have :
ReplyDelete“ It’s better than it was “
I say that all the time re cleaning etc !!! XXXX
Lol love it
DeleteProbably just my name and dates. Nothing more.
ReplyDeleteI thought your tombstone would be a great opportunity for one of your jokes. I am disappointed.
DeleteDisappointed, Rachel? YP can always be relied upon to live up to his reputation. An exercise in diminishing returns.
DeleteNever mind his tombstone. His coffin will be Clint. I mean, what is the purpose of Clint if not carting YP here and everywhere? Including heaven where there are no rights of way for YP to dispute. That image alone makes me feel sorry for him.
RIP, YP, 1952(?) - as yet, like one of Schubert's symphonies, not finished.
Hugs, no hisses,
U
Lol , I did have a long hard think about it, and thought a joke would not be allowed , I think written memorials have to fulfil some sort of criteria
DeleteYou are obviously still reading MR Pudding’s work, he’ll be flattered
DeleteI was looking out for a joke from him here. I thought it was his ideal showcase.
DeleteI see you say you didn't think a joke would be allowed; it is a blog post, not the real thing. By the way, Spike's wasn't his, it had been used by others before him.
DeleteYes..no I, serious with my thoughts on the epitaph
DeleteI want to organise EVERYTHING
Yes me too. All done here too. I was referring to a bit of fun with the epitaphs. I love Mave's.
DeleteOne of my favourite movie quotes: "He was some kind of a man. What does it matter what you say about people?"
ReplyDeleteOne of my favourite movie quotes: "He was some kind of a man. What does it matter what you say about people?"
ReplyDeleteWhat film john
DeleteAh
DeleteTouch of evil
Ms Dietrich’s words
I am being "green cremated," where they use a tank of some solution, rather than the box and burn method. What's left will be compost for a tree - perhaps in one of our National Forests that have been torched by wildfires. Had I chosen a tombstone, mine would have said, "Whatever."
ReplyDeleteHumm, that sounds a bit syfy
DeleteNo headstone or grave or service. The least fuss possible.
ReplyDeleteA private cremation, already paid for, body taken to the crematorium by the funeral company at whatever time they've arranged it for, only the crematorium staff present.
No family or friends. I've arranged to go as I lived my life, without fuss.
That's a bit mean, Anon. After all, funerals are not for the dead. They are for the living. Ritual and all that. Coping with the grief even if, secretly, everyone is glad to see back of you.
Delete"No fuss"? You'll create more fuss than you ever wished for by excluding everyone. Trust me on that one. You'll be the centre of attention - in absentia.
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Both of my parents were cremated, as was my husband three years ago, according to their wishes. You can still celebrate a person's life without having a funeral. No one is "excluded."
DeleteIf it’s your wish anon,
DeleteI get it totally
Why on earth would I want to trust you about my cremation Ursula? You know nothing of my life, my past or my present situation.
DeleteThere is nobody to be "excluded" and if you read my comment again you'll see the words "no family or friends" which means exactly as it says, I have no living family left and have no friends, by choice.
My solicitor will deal with my estate, such as it is, to be donated to charities after his fees have been deducted. I have already given to charities any surplus that I no longer need.
When you know nothing about a person's situation Ursula please keep your criticisms to yourself.
John, thank you, I thought you would understand.
This isn’t mine, but saw it on a headstone. “Finally I am skinny!” Haha
ReplyDeleteSharon in CO
This one wouldn’t be allowed in the uk
DeleteBut I like it
No epitaph, just my ashes scattered to the wind in the mountians.
ReplyDeleteNice
DeleteHere lies the greatest human being that has ever lived,
ReplyDeleteAnd you dumb suckers had no clue.
Lol
DeleteNo more staff meetings
ReplyDeleteI like this one too
DeleteWell i wont have the opportunity as i put on my hubby's
ReplyDelete"To the world he was a man
To me he was the world"
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ReplyDeleteA good heart is hard to find, but this woman had one .....
ReplyDeleteSnappy
Delete"He got away with it far too often."
ReplyDeleteI doubt that Nicolas
DeleteHeadstone? I won't have one, but if I did, perhaps: "This explains why I have stopped commenting".
ReplyDeleteEvidently blogspot thought my reply needed repeating. I’ll be at the beach because my ashes will be scattered in the Gulf of Mexico
ReplyDeleteI keep threatening my family that I'll put - Julie and her 2 pussies on it, as I want my cats ashes to come with me. At least people would have a laugh.
ReplyDeleteI had to look again at the possible scammer whose last line of his comment was "slot on line". All kinds of strange things came into my mind as to what that would mean on a headstone. Then I read the beginning of the comment and I semi-understood what he meant, but that was a bit funny considering the subject, to me. I just took my allergy medicine so maybe I'm easily amused right now.
ReplyDeleteI can't decide if I want to be buried or cremated. If cremated I hope someone would want to keep some of my ashes,and I would like the rest of the ashes sprinkled
into the middle of the Mississippi River from a ferry that we traveled on across the river and had many enjoyable times on road trips, plus sooner or later some particles of me will make it to the ocean. I love the Mississippi River about 40 miles upriver from St.Louis and some of my best memories are of times spent boating, swimming and fishing, camping on the sandbars along the Mississippi where the water was clear enough you could see your feet until the water was well over knee deep.
I also like the idea of having a tree planted very near my grave site. I have no idea what, besides name and dates, that I would like on my headstone. Maybe some lilies and/or dogwood flowers carved into it instead of words.
My husband says he wants to be turned into a diamond!
He is a real jewel.
"Just Passing Through"
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